Quotes About Striving

Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

It is indeed curious: Although they would have been satisfied with next to nothing, they nevertheless strove for something. Here is how Stoics would explain this seeming paradox. Stoic philosophy, while teaching us to be satisfied with whatever we've got, also counsels us to seek certain things in life. We should, for example, strive to become better people—to become virtuous in the ancient sense of the word.

Maybe this is what life is like - we try to see clearly but what we see is never clear and is never going to be. The more we strive the murkier it becomes. All we are left with are approximations, nuances, multitudes of plausible explanations. Take your pick.

It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

That means adopting "a mindset of falsification," always striving to "disprove" your hypothesis, and seeing "if it stands up to the assault." One of Shubin Stein's favorite questions is, "Why might I be wrong?

It was only one of a dozen or twenty vocations which he had taken up at various times, only to drop them again as soon as he made the discovery that they one and all entailed months and even years of hard work if he was ever to fulfil his ambitious desire of doing and being something great in the world.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

A man's reach should exceed his grasp; else what's a heaven for? (Quote by Robert Browning)

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

Truth and beauty are closely related but not the same. You're never sure that you have the truth. All you're doing is striving towards better and better truths and the light that guides you is beauty.

Aspire to be, and all that we are not God will give us credit for trying.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

Perfect joy lies in selflessly striving for the best outcome, and then humbly accepting whatever God gives.

We're all turkeys! Some of us are running around with our heads cut off, some of us are flapping our wings that hard we're close to flying. But nothing is an eagle bar God.

The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.

The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.

To assume that His plan fails and that he strives to no effect is to reduce Him to the level of His creatures and make Him no God at all.

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

The striving from servant, the blessings from Almighty God.

It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing.

God's word is : He who strives never perishes.