Quotes About Striving

The sea refreshes our imagination because it does not make us think of human life; yet it rejoices the soul, because, like the soul, it is an infinite and impotent striving, a strength that is ceaselessly broken by falls, an eternal and exquisite lament.

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From time immemorial it has been one of the deepest longings of the human heart to strain against the erosion of one's life, to find a way of living and being that manages to find some stable ground within time, a place from where something eternal can be harvested from our disappearance. This is what all art strives for: the creation of a living permanence.

Sin will not only be striving, acting, rebelling, troubling, disquieting, but if let alone, if not continually mortified, it will bring forth great, cursed, scandalous, soul-destroying sins.

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I'll do my best," Wilson said. "Your best got you stationed on the Clarke," Abumwe said. "Do better than that.

People moving [...] Movin' cause they got to [...] Movin' cause they want sompin better'n what they got. An' that's the on'y way they'll ever git it.

rose like cream to the top of milk.

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

Perfection is what you are striving for, but perfection is an impossibility. However, striving for perfection is not an impossibility. Do the best you can under the conditions that exist. That is what counts.

You never stop trying.

Our teams at UCLA had four perfect seasons, but we never played a perfect game, never played as well as we could. That's perfection. We didn't reach perfection, but we constantly strove toward it.

Faith is the sturdiest the most manly of the virtues. It lies behind our pluckiest... strivings. It is the virtue of the storm just as happiness is the virtue of the sunshine.

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

Though you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it.

Perhaps the most distant part of the sky always seems clearest, so that we will always strive to reach it.

It's important to note that there's no such thing as perfect happiness, just as there's no such thing as perfect despair. This is why trying to be perfect is an exercise in futility.

Perhaps the distant part of the sky always seem the clearest, so that we always strive to reach it.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.

Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no one can live.

The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.

Trying is the first step to failure

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. . . .

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.