Quotes About Striving

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you're just stretching your soul.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied.

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.

Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further, trying to fly higher… and falling.

What if virtue, work, all our striving and sweat was simply not enough to make the animal man a happy creature?

You cannot get off the treadmill simply by running faster. All you can do by that mechanism is temporarily pass others, until they respond by running faster too, with the long-term consequence of having the whole field increase their speed just to stand still. The victor in such a race is not the runner, but the treadmill.

After hearing our presentation, audience members would raise their hands and ask, "So, what was the single big thing you did to achieve these great results?" "Well," I said, "there was no single best practice. It was a mind-set of intellectual rigor we had adopted that made the difference. It's this mind-set that you should be striving to replicate in your own organization.

Everyone should get at least one good look at the eyes of a man who finds himself rising toward what he wants to pull down to himself.

Le persone bruciate alla nascita, quelle colpite e offese oltre ogni giustizia, finiscono per ripiegarsi nel loro stesso fuoco, o per risorgere

Take pains. Be perfect.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell. Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

AÅŸa??da olanlar?n yükseklerdedir gözü; Merdiven ç?kan?n yukar?ya çevriktir yüzü; Ama son basamaÄŸa ulaÅŸt? m? bir kez Merdivene çevirir s?rt?n?, bulutlara bakar, Hor görüp birer birer bas?p ç?kt??? basamaklar?.

The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.

The More I Rest The More I Go In VAIN

The maxim Nothing avails but perfection may be spelt p-a-r-a-l-y-s-i-s

Seeking perfection, Ross . . . in life it's dangerous, for it makes the less than perfect seem less than enough. Time is not indefinite.