Quotes About Strive

We have – understandably – lost faith in our institutions, most especially our governments, and so we keep our focus close, strive to get our own needs met in a world that seems to be growing harsher and less safe by the day.

That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do.

We ought to read and search the Holy Scriptures much, and do it with the design to know the whole of our duty, and in order that the word of God may be "a lamp unto our feet, and a light unto our paths." Psal. cxix. 105. Every one ought to strive to get knowledge in divine things, and to grow in such knowledge, to the end that he may know his duty, and know what God would have him to do.

You have to do to be.

All I ask the haters--and I, too, am one--is that they strive to perfect their contempt, even consider bringing it to bear on poems, where it will be deepened, not dispelled, and where, by creating a place for possibility and present absences (like unheard melodies), it might come to resemble love.

While colleges strive for ethnic diversity, they actively oppose ideological diversity.

In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.

The thing I would hate myself for the most or regret the most is if I did not push myself to maximize my potential and my abilities.

I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor.

You want to be the team that is on the field when the last out is made on the winning side. That's obviously the holy grail in the game that I play, and that's what every player strives for.

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

The idol from which we strive to get life determines what behaviors we must display and what realities we must conceal. The

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.

For me, dance is about the aesthetics and the hard work that goes into creating something so beautiful. Motivation and dedication to the craft is what pushes me to do my best, to always strive to do better, and the outcome is always worth it.

At the restaurant, we strive to create an excellent experience for our guests, and in the kitchen, we could not do this without having access to the best ingredients, equipment and tools, including Victorinox Cutlery.

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from nothing to the top; they think you start at the top.

gives us a road to the decency and legitimacy we want while sparing us the difficulty and struggle of true virtue. Dissociation turns virtue into a mask. It gives us the means to construct a "face of The Good." It counts the mere mouthing of glossy ideas of The Good the same as an honest struggle toward what is actually possible.

The balanced rocks that sit on the inuksuk...represent the balance we strive to find in our lives. Life is fragile, just like the balanced rocks, but they help us remember that anything is possible.

People strive to be ahead of time just to get a chance to trip it.

He could not do it. It was as simple as that. He had known it there at the castle as he held her in his arms, his head bent back against the stone pillar, his body aching and aching for her. He could not do it. She had done nothing to deserve him and the kind of destruction he could bring into her life.

Believe me, I will never desert life until this last hope is torn from my bosom, that in some way my labours may form a link of gold with which we ought all to strive to drag Happiness from where she sits enthroned above the clouds, now far beyond our reach, to inhabit the earth with us.