Strive vs. Aspire — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Strive and Aspire
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Strive
Make great efforts to achieve or obtain something
National movements were striving for independence
We must strive to secure steady growth
Aspire
To have a great ambition or ultimate goal; desire strongly
Aspired to be a poet.
Strive
To exert much effort or energy; endeavor.
Aspire
To strive toward an end or condition
Aspiring to great knowledge.
Strive
To struggle or fight forcefully; contend
Strive against injustice.
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Aspire
(Archaic) To rise high; move upwards.
Strive
To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
He strove to excel.
We strive for the truth.
Aspire
(intransitive) To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve something.
To aspire to / for / after / to do something; to aspire that something happens
He aspires to become a successful doctor.
We aspire that the world will be a better place.
Strive
To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.
To strive against fate
Aspire
To go as high as, to reach the top of (something).
Strive
To vie; to compete as a rival.
Aspire
To move upward; to be very tall.
Strive
To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.
Was for this his ambition stroveTo equal Cæsar first, and after, Jove?
Aspire
To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; - followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell;Aspiring to be angels, men rebel.
Strive
To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; - followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth.
My Spirit shall not always strive with man.
Why dost thou strive against him?
Now private pity strove with public hate,Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
Aspire
To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
My own breath still foments the fire,Which flames as high as fancy can aspire.
Strive
To vie; to compete; to be a rival.
[Not] that sweet groveOf Daphne, by Orontes and the inspiredCastalian spring, might with this paradiseOf Eden strive.
Aspire
To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.
That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.
Strive
An effort; a striving.
Aspire
Aspiration.
Strive
Strife; contention.
Aspire
Have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal
Strive
Attempt by employing effort;
We endeavor to make our customers happy
Strive
To exert much effort or energy;
Straining our ears to hear
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