Striven Quotes

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.