#strive

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#feel #future #own #ownership #people

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#consult #doing #effectually #help #help others

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

#charity #finish #firmness #gives #god

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? ↗

— Charles de Lint

#everything #indeed #known #left #life

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#brazilian music #concept #disciplined #harmonies #i

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all. ↗

— Jose Marti

#cannot #freedoms #furthering #harm #harming

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see. ↗

— John Masefield

#earthly #few #hate #ignorance #know