striving

[strive]

An effortful attempt to attain a goal

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from Strive.

Noun
an effortful attempt to attain a goal


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Strive


a. & n. from Strive.


Striving

Striv"ing , a. & n. from Strive. -- Striv"ing*ly, adv.

from Strive.

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Usage Examples

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

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