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Quotes About Striving

Win for me. Win for my kids. Win for my marriage so I can carry your winning back to the car with me and sit in the glow of it with my family as we drive back toward our otherwise winless lives.
~ Dennis Lehane
Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work. Happiness is not an exception.
~ Dennis Prager
Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work.
~ Dennis Prager
The truth about it is, whether we is rich or poor or somethin in between, this earth ain't no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless--just workin our way toward home.
~ Denver Moore
As athletes, you always know that mistakes happen, and not everyone is perfect, and you can't be perfect.
~ Katelyn Ohashi
Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.
~ Jay McInerney
I was still auditioning when I was in college, but I wasn't really giving it the old college try. I was giving college the old college try.
~ Alden Ehrenreich
Any time you go out there and compete, you want to do your best.
~ LeSean McCoy
It's not always easy to make a name for yourself. You've gotta earn it. Because nothing's ever given.
~ Andrew Wiggins
Trying best is enough.
~ Unknown
Nice work if you can get it,And you can get it if you try.
~ Ira Gershwin
The satisfaction earned by the striving can be whatever furnishes the strongest incentive to the child, for example, extra pleasures or possessions for a sensing child, special freedoms or opportunities for an intuitive, new dignity or authority for a thinker, and more praise or companionship for a feeling type.
~ Isabel Briggs Myers
A hedgehog will not make peace with the world. He is not reconciled. He cannot accept that he knows only many things. He seeks to know one big thing, and strives without ceasing to give reality a unifying shape. Foxes settle for what they know and may live happy lives. Hedgehogs will not settle and their lives may not be happy.
~ Isaiah Berlin
Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
~ Daisaku Ikeda
It won't work, Robert," Rybar repeated, "but that doesn't mean we don't have to try.
~ Unknown
In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.
~ Daniel Gilbert
Economies thrive when individuals strive, but because individuals will only strive for their own happiness, it is essential that they mistakenly believe that producing and consuming are routes to personal well-being.
~ Daniel Gilbert
The truth is that a huge percentage of misbehavior is more about can't than won't.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves.
~ Andrea Jung
I definitely think everyone's competitive on some level, there's virtually no-one who hasn't cared at some point about something they've done.
~ Alex Horne
He'd spent his life travelling the path of least resistance, taking the easiest of routes, searching for the quickest of solutions, and with Kate, he'd discovered more satisfaction was found in fighting for something, in striving to meet her expectations.
~ Lorraine Heath
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe that they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level, we cannot hope to achieve a higher level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.
~ Unknown
To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I wonder if anyone works any harder at anything than kids do at being popular.
~ Jodi Picoult