Definition of Strive

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Strive

To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.

To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth.

To vie; to compete; to be a rival.

An effort; a striving.

Strife; contention.

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Strive Quotations

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Buddha

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein

Only the insecure strive for security.
Wayne Dyer

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Abraham Lincoln

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
Mohandas Gandhi

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
Sun Tzu

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Sigmund Freud

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Strive Translations

strive in German is eifern, bestrebe, erstreben
strive in Latin is contendo
strive in Spanish is esforzarse

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