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Quotes About Striving

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.
~ Tom Arnold
I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.
~ Laura Dern
The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When I was growing up in Montana I had two dreams: I wanted to be a paleontologist and I wanted to have a pet dinosaur and so that's what I've been striving for all of my life.
~ Jack Horner
If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless.
~ Andrew the Apostle
The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.
~ John Prine
The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Man errs as long as he strives.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You travelamong the starswhilst I grovelupon this earth.Deep down I knew, it would takeseveral more lifetimesbefore I couldreach you.
~ Xue Yun
When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown back!...Since imagination is hungry for novelty, and ungoverned, it gropes at random
~ Émile Durkheim
In all of its operations, cinema ceaselessly strives, and fails, to make present a world hopelessly beyond grasp. For this reason cinema is, in its very nature, a nihilistic medium.
~ John Marmysz
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won't.
~ Dorianne Laux
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
~ Max Weber
Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.
~ Tupac Shakur
No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.
~ Gerald R. Ford
Reaching beyond where you are is really important.
~ Martin Seligman
I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well.
~ Mike Tyson
Trying is better option than giving up..
~ Sher E Yazdan
Keep striving, for God gives His hardest battles to His strongest soldiers.
~ Habeeb Akande
I'll try once again, try my best & give my best!
~ Sujish Kandampully
Lifting as they climb onward and upward they go struggling and striving and hoping that the buds and blossoms of their desires may burst into glorious fruition ere long.
~ Mary Church Terrell
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
~ Elbert Hubbard