Striving

Famous quotes containing the word striving:

“We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind;
but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.”
—Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)

“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)