Quotes About Striving

Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did.

I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

Second place is the first loser.

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.

In other words, if there is to be any chance at all of success, there is only one way to strive for decency, reason, responsibility, sincerity, civility, and tolerance, and that is decently, reasonably, responsibly, sincerely, civilly, and tolerantly.

What was the good at having an ideal if everyone is trying to beat everyone else at admitting how impossible it is to achieve it.

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

What if you have a genuine and captivating beauty that is marred only by your striving?

The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.

One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can.

I ain't no perfect man I'm tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have.

We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?

I remember being married to John Barry and trying to be the best wife in the world.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

Greatness is won, not awarded.

We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara—the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.

Everyone can run the race, but not to the same place.

I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when.

But look at the aspirations of that rabbit and look at his failing. A little life trying. And all the time it was hopeless. But the rabbit didn't know that. Or maybe did know and kept trying anyhow. But I think he didn't understand. He just wanted to do it so badly. It was his whole life, because he loved the cats.

The noise and stirrings represented authentic life. Some people found all this evil; he did not. People who thought that were wrong. The restless, roving bands of males who sought God knew what—they themselves didn't know: their striving was the genuine primal under-urge of protoplasmic material itself. This irritable ceaseless motion had once carried life right out of the sea and onto land;