Quotes About Striving

What is worth having is worth working for.

The operating room turns you into somebody who's never wrong. Much like writing. Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right some day is the perversity that draws you on.

It's hard to show that you tried unless you end up succeeding.

But there was also something swimming, an idea, a dream of what we were striving for and what it would look like when we got there. Then we got there, and it didn't look the same at all, somehow...Are all human beings malcontents?

We sweat for our pretensions. It

Sometimes, just trying was a triumph.

To live in the city of crowds and traffic and constant noise, to be always striving, to be in the ceaseless competition for money and status and power, perhaps distracted the mind until it could no longer see—and forgot—the all that is. Or maybe, because of the pace and pressure of that life, sanity depended on blinding oneself to the manifold miracles, astonishments, wonders, and enigmas that comprised the true world.

what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214

We will never be perfect: that is our limitation.

I am striving desperately for a toe-hold on the world.

Nobody from my family has come close to what I have achieved in life.

You work all year to win.

I'm extremely competitive, extremely ambitious, and always looking for ways to improve and move up, to do things better.

I guess there's something that's appealing to me about people that are aspirational-slash-deluded.

The physician strains towards good as an artist towards beauty, each impelled by that grand sentiment which we call virtue.

No ascent is too steep for mortals. Heaven itself we seek in our folly.

Fields plowed and sown, but yielding no fruit! Machinery constantly in motion, but all without one particle of produce! Nets cast into the sea and spread wide, but no fishes caught! All this for years – for a lifetime!

I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

Writing is 90% struggle. The other 10% is up to you.

It is too much to hope that I shall keep up my success. I don't ask for that. All I shall do is my best – and hope.

The pimp game is like the watchmaker's art, it's tough. Party went through his life struggling to make a watch while wearing boxing gloves.

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

Lo que es estupido es esforzarse por lograr algo que nunca será nuestro.

Walk with me world, upon my right hand walk, speak to me Babel, that I may strive to assemble of all these syllables a single word before the purpose of speech is gone.