Quotes About Striving

In my heart, I yearn to best them.

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

life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience.

They strove to pile Ossa on Olympus, and on Ossa Pelion with its leafy forests, that they might scale the heavens.

Trying is the first step towards failure.

You have wavered uncertainly between two systems, between drawing and coloring, between the painstaking phlegm, the stiff precision, of the old German masters, and the dazzling ardor, the happy fertility, of the Italian painters.

I tried so hard and got so far. But in the end, it doesnt even matter

trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

You know, I think it's so ironic that we're calling hard work, striving for excellence, don't blame others, you know, don't give up, that we're calling these, quote, 'Chinese values,' 'cause I always thought of them as American values.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

I wrote in my journal about how good I felt when I was not living under Ed's control. Then, when I really felt like giving up, I read these pages and realized that I was striving for in recovery was a real possibility. I thought about these experiences and used them as encouragement to keep moving forward. Even one minute of freedom was proof that I was getting better. At first, these times were few and far between. Now, these moments are connected; they are my life

Exciting wasn't turning out obe as easy as she'd thought it would be, but it was definitely worth pursuing.

Women had made progress - Jo only had to look as far as the television set to see it - but she wondered whether they would ever not try to have it all and do it all and do it all flawlessly. Would the day ever come when simply doing your best would be enough?

Would the day ever come when simply doing your best would be enough?

She wondered whether they would ever not try to have it all and do it all and do all of it flawlessly. Would the day ever come when simply doing your best would be enough?" Wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, aunt, caretaker, career women: Mrs. Everything attempts to cover it all.

Women had made progress—Jo only had to look as far as the television set to see it—but she wondered whether they would ever not try to have it all and do it all and do all of it flawlessly. Would the day ever come when simply doing your best would be enough?

see it—but she wondered whether they would ever not try to have it all and do it all and do all of it flawlessly. Would the day ever come when simply doing your best would be enough? Her

Trebuie s? fie un fel de uÈ™urare în faptul de a-È›i fi ajuns scopurile.E ca un soi de sprint în care tocmai forÈ›ezi, dup? care treci linia de sosire È™i-È›i tragi sufletul-ai reuÈ™it!De fapt, niciodat? nu reuÈ™eÈ™ti-întotdeauna trebuie s-o iei de la cap?t.

The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit's work to discourage us.

For practical purposes I will define Wu Shi or the Warrior Spirit as a dance between striving to win, yet not needing to win to be successful.

to test is great to win is better

Early on I learned, without anyone actually telling me, that in this world it is not enough just to be. You have to be something.

Ambition is the intellectual equivalent of body odour.