Definition of Strife

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Strife

The act of striving; earnest endeavor.

Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts.

Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle.

That which is contended against; occasion of contest.

Related Definitions:

Act, Against, Altercation, Battle, By, Contended, Contention, Contest, Earnest, Either, Emulation, Endeavor, Exertion, Fight, For, Intellectual, Is, Occasion, Of, Or, Physical, Striving, Superiority, That, The, Violent, Which

Strife Quotations

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
Lao Tzu

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
James Madison

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
Virgil

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
Virgil

Passion and strife bow down the mind.
Virgil

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
Joseph Conrad

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Jesse Owens

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
Ezra Pound

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
Herodotus

Strife Translations

strife in German is Unfriede
strife in Spanish is disputa
strife in Swedish is kiv, tvist

Quotes