Quotes About Striving

all heathen books are poisoned through and through with this striving after praise and honor.

The greedy misuse the world by striving to acquire it.

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures. Roland Stahler Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world Into reality.

Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

I see Jenna, smiling, chattering. And failing. When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?

Good luck. Maybe that's all it was. Maybe the whole of life depended not on how hard you tried, how determined you were, how sensible, how smart: maybe the whole shooting match depended on luck.

There is no right," she says. "There's the best you can do. And that's fine. That's normal.

Paying the price for your dreams proves you can afford them.

The great compete not only against others, but against themselves.

For the ultrarealist, goals exist not to be achieved but to stimulate striving and to drive progress toward the fulfillment of potential. This is why champions set goals that are hard to achieve, and why they welcome opportunities to raise their game.

Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.

Even death was something Nora couldn't do properly. It was a familiar feeling. This feeling of being incomplete in just about every sense. An unfinished jigsaw of human. Incomplete living and incomplete dying.

Even death was something Nora couldn't do properly, it seemed. It was a familiar feeling. This feeling of being incomplete in just about every sense. An unfinished jigsaw of a human. Incomplete living and incomplete dying.

I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want.

What is the course of the life Of mortal men on the earth?-- Most men eddy about Here and there--eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurl'd in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and, then they die-- Perish; and no one asks Who or what they have been, More than he asks what waves In the moonlit solitudes mild Of the midmost Ocean, have swell'd, Foam'd for a moment, and gone.

Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.

Be gentle with yourself, be gentle with others, and never stop striving to be all that God created you to be: the-very-best-version-of-yourself.

Doctrina: Hay muchos en el mundo que son solo casi cristianos; muchos que están cerca del cielo, pero nunca están lo suficientemente cerca; muchos que están en medio de un poco de salvación, pero nunca disfrutarán de la más mínima salvación; tienen el cielo a la vista y, sin embargo, nunca verán a Dios.

They are all doing their best; even when they are not, they wish they were, and that is worth something too.

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there -- or failing to get there.

In allem Streben und Forschen suche ich hinter dem Geheimnis des Lichtstrahls ehrfürchtig das Geheimnis des göttlichen Geistes.

If he feels bad because he is inferior, the cure is to make himself as good as everybody else, and the way to feel really good is to make himself superior. This striving for superiority gets him into more trouble, causes more frustration, and sometimes brings about a neurosis where none existed before. He becomes more miserable than ever, and "the harder he tries," the more miserable he becomes.