Quotes About Strive

Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

To speak without shame about books we haven't read, we would thus do well to free ourselves of the oppressive image of cultural literacy without gaps, as transmitted and imposed by family and school, for we can strive toward this image for a lifetime without ever managing to coincide with it.

Ambition is your inner voice that tells you you can and should strive to go beyond your circumstances or station in life.

Some really good players are coming out of county cricket. Better preparation, and looking after yourself physically are things that counties should still have to strive for. Also, the volume of county cricket is still far too high. I'd definitely like less county cricket.

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage the highest levels of voter turnout and participation.

Such was the Bush code: Strive for victory, but never seem self-involved

The way to stand the "long strain on the temper" is to embrace compromise, seek balance, and strive to serve the national interest, which will be, in the fullness of time, in the personal historical interest of the individual president himself.

We spent our lives making livings.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It's all well and good to set reasonable goals, but when unreasonable goals are your only choice, you should always strive for them. Because it's not really a choice at all.

We need to appreciate what we have and strive for what we can achieve, rather than reach for what's denied to us.

There's never a perfect play for me.

I've always wanted a perfect life.

I always say we're chasing perfection in an imperfect game.

The moment you achieve perfection, you are dead. The word exists because we are all imperfect. That is true about performance as well.

Perfection is our enemy... not because we don't want perfect candidates, but because perfect candidates don't exist.

I'm kind of like a perfectionist when it comes to just having a complete game. So it's always kind of difficult for me to shake off a drop or something like that.

Proceed to illuminate the road, and do not be an arbiter. Strive to be the epitome, but do not be a pundit.

Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particular shape by melting it into a particular mould--into the definiteness of success.

The emptiness left by easy joys, untasted, is ever growing in my life. And the day may come when I shall feel that, could I but have the past back, I would strive no more after the unattainable, but drain to the full these little, unsought, everyday joys which life offers.

You've got to support working families. We should be looking to support those who strive the hardest, and increase the national living wage, to make sure that the lowest paid get the biggest increase in pay.

Every step, every bit of success, it's gotta be earned.

I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.