Quotes About Striving

God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

God helps him who strives hard.

From today onwards, I am going to strive for the greatest purity of soul, that the rays of God's grace may be reflected in all their brilliance.

God generously helps to those who try to do their best without asking God's help!

If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

In some way I felt I was never good enough until I started fighting. I was always striving to show my worth and value.

I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

A good person, striving dimly, Is well aware of the right path.

I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'

If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.

I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.

My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all?

What happens when perfection isn't good enough?

We never do great things without trying.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.