Quotes About Striving

As it was, she faltered a little, and we loved her the more. That experience has given me great comfort. I figure that if I fall a little short of what is expected of me, perhaps my sisters in the gospel will be compassionate and love me more for trying.

The secret impetus behind legalism is its competitiveness. The point is not just to win: it's to beat everyone else.

Acceptance was not in my nature. Even as a young man it seemed to me that everywhere the world conspired against the heart, and though I knew the heart would lose, I couldn't bear to call it right.

There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.

It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well.

Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.

Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.

Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could.

Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.

We strive toward a goal, and whether we achieve it or not is important, but it's not what's most important. What matters is how we move toward that goal.

Set your goals-without goals you cannot measure your progress. But don't become frustrated because there are no obvious victories. Remind yourself that striving can be more important than arriving.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.

Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and direction, which is a helluva lot better than chasing one's tail.

Never set goals you can reach in your lifetime.

Keep striving for your goals, and remember that it's good to be ambitious.

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat

I cannot live my life striving only for my own security, I can only feel secure when I see myself useful in other people's life.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissastifaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.