Quotes About Striving

There are no ordained results in this world, I've discovered. The trying is what counts most.

Then, too, if I were a Negro, I would not be pressured by my mother to find a good job, for no good jobs would be available. My mother herself, a worn old Negress, would be too broken by years of underpaid labor as a domestic to go out bowling at night. She and I could live most pleasantly in some moldy shack in the slums in a state of ambitionless peace, realizing contentedly that we were unwanted, that striving was meaningless.

No one enjoys being equal.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

All excellence is equally difficult.

I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

I think everyone is their harshest critic, but I strive for excellence as much as I can because I think it shows.

Do not confuse excellence with perfection. The first is possible to achieve, the second is probably not.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

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

Trying is the first step toward failure.

There's no such thing as failure if you just try.

The only true failure is failure to try.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

Like the bronze statue of the Angel of the Waters, those who pursue perfection find themselves paralysed by the possibility of flaw, fault or failure.

To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.