Strivers Quotes:

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.

- Usher

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Believe, Dreamer, Achieve, Strivers

Down time is not the name of the game.

- Usher

topic: Games, Names, Strivers, Down Time

Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.

- Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

topic: Each Day, Creation, Strive, Strivers

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

- Robert Menzies

topic: Thinking, Class, People, Strivers, Thinking Ahead

Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.

- Roberto Bolano

topic: Past, Two, Rivers, Strivers

So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial.

- Ossian Everett Mills

topic: Brother, Men, Self, Indulge, Strivers

merica was middle-class for the very start - the people who came first were hyper-strivers from England. There were no vested interests, no ranks, no classes, it was very lightly populated, there were unlimited natural resources - for free essentially - if you failed, you could always start over.

- Charles R. Morris

topic: Class, People, Starting Over, Strivers

Immigration keeps this country young, it keeps it dynamic, we have entrepreneurs and strivers who come here and are willing to take risks, and that's part of the reason why America historically has been successful.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: time.com

topic: Country, Successful, America, Strivers

America is a nation of believers, dreamers and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.

- Donald Trump

source: Donald Trump's Acceptance Speech at the Republican Convention, time.com. July 22, 2016.

topic: America, Dreamer, Groups, Strivers

How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to be at once an arrow soaring skyward and an oak planted firmly in the ground? The meritocratic culture hones strivers on every aspect of their lives save one - how to cultivate character.

- David Brooks

topic: Honesty, Character, Arrows, Strivers

Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.

- Elizabeth I

topic: Loss, Thanks, Good Service, Strivers

I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest of Truth, and that we must be contented to have obtained for the strivers after Truth such a resting place which, if it is on a mountain, permits us to view the provinces already won and those still to be conquered.

- Justus von Liebig

topic: Views, Mountain, Way, Strivers, Already Won

But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The lines at unemployment offices and churches offering free food includes strivers as well as slackers, habitual optimists as well as the chronically depressed. When and if the economy recovers we can never allow ourselves to forget how widespread our vulnerability is, how easy it is to spiral down toward destitution.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

source: Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.155, Macmillan

topic: Offering, Should Have, Ideas, Slacker, Meltdowns

Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape.

- Michelle Malkin

topic: Fighting, Sight, Dozen, Strivers, Crabs

The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.

- Gail Collins

topic: Party, People, Tea, Strivers, Tea Party