Quotes About Striving

I don't believe in perfect tennis or perfect matches.

No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.

I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.

In my mind, Atlanta is a city where people are constantly trying to come up. They want to be richer than they were.

I am just going to keep getting in the right place at the right time and try and get more goals.

The Rio Games, it will be a big goal.

You can never be completely satisfied with your work.

I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.

I'm not satisfied with anything I do.

I'm not satisfied with doing well or doing good.

Every time you can score more goals you should try to do so.

I enjoy creating goals more than scoring them.

I've just been competitive all my life. That draws from a competitive family. We're all athletes, and we're all trying to win no matter what it is, whether it's Scrabble or basketball.

There was no support system in Seattle for musicians.

The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since.

There's a panic, a rush, to this 'achievement' of fame. There's also the ambivalence of fame: the love of it and the hatred of it. We sometimes hate the famous while, at the same time, straining to achieve fame oneself.

Every Christian who strives for holiness of life experiences dryness of soul. It is to most people a heart-rending experience. It is a paradox, for the soul becomes confused when it realizes the harder it strives the further away Jesus seems to be.

Struggle has been a part and parcel of my life.

The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks, the solo violinist came to Stravinsky and said he was sorry, he had tried his best, the passage was too difficult, no violinist could play it. Stravinsky said, "I understand that. What I am after is the sound of someone trying to play it." —Thomas Powers

Tryk forvandles ikke til trang, til livslyst eller livsglæde, men splintres voldeligt, hvis alle kræfter sættes ind. Og det er tragisk. Den slags mennesker knuses af den is, som deres hjerter ikke kan smelte. De ødelægger det, de ville være gode ved.

It seems to me a case of negligence if, after becoming firm in our faith, we do not strive to understand what we believe.

Perfection's unattainable but it isn't unapproachable.

Perfection's unattainable but it isn't unapproachable, you

COMPETED WITH YOU, MY DEAR, IN DEVOTION, VIRTUE, FRUGALITY, AND LOVE—BUT I ALWAYS LOST. I WISH EVERYONE THE SAME FATE.