Quotes About Striving

Success always demands a greater effort.

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

All this shows how much luck there is in human affairs, and how little we should worry about anything except doing our best.

So poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their "oeuvres." I

He fixed his eyes on my fingers while I played to him, then said suddenly, My God; I work at it till I sweat and yet get no success - while you, my friend, simply play at it! Yes, said I, but I too had to work in order that I might be exempt from work now.

Hola. No te había visto. ¿Vives aquí? —me esmero tanto en parecer casual que de pronto no sé si parezco pendejo.

Within my roasting brain cells, the scaps of thought refused to cohere.

For all men strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.

All of us are either trying to work and be good enough to please God, or we are believing and trusting God to do for us what we can't do for ourselves. At each moment of our lives we find ourselves on one road or the other. If we are still trying to please God through being good enough, defeat and frustration will be our lot. If we have trusted in God's grace to transform us and form Christ within us, we will enjoy life and peace. I

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

Nobody's going to hand you anything. You don't get what you don't go after.

Não, não, ainda melhor assim: cada um com um corpo, empurrando-o para frente, querendo sofregamente vivê-lo. Procurando cheio de cobiça subir o outro, pedindo cheio de covardia astuciosa e comovente para existir melhor, melhor.

Philosophy is nothing else than striving through constant contemplation and saintly piety to attain knowledge of God.

She knew, then, that this solemn form of joy, so pure because it had no content, so reliable because it relied on nobody else, was the state for which she would henceforth strive.

Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.

What she did know was that normal was a lot more tempting when it was out of reach.

If I cannot be better than them, I will be so much worse.

And then I had to learn how to be a person all the time. I tried to be, for you.

If i cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse" -Jude Duarte

You were always good,' he says, looking down at me. 'Just never good enough.

if i can't be better than them i'll become much worse

If I cannot be better than them, I will become much worse.

If I can't be better then them, I will become so much worse

You were always good," he says, looking down at me. "Just never good enough.