Does this combination sound right?

Either 'strive' or 'move forward', never 'strive forward'.

Do you intend to keep posting these ideas until you get a response you like?

Why not ?

Is this supposed to sound like it was written by a native English speaker?

Do you want it to be understood in England or in North America?

This is supposed to sound like it was written by a native English speaker.

Do not, by any means whatsoever, shun failure! Instead, think of failure as an 'obscured learning curve', that helps one to strive forward.

The English language is a set of rules, but they are meant to be broken and some of our finest poetry and prose broke those rules so people had to come up with new words to put these 'break-offs' back in the rule book . There is nothing wrong with the above, I just added a little punctuation .