Quotes About Striving

What are we all chasing? Nella wonders. To live, of course. To be unbound from the invisible ropes that Johannes spoke of in his study. Or to be happy in them, at least.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.

There is no hope without endeavor.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

You're never really happy. I'm certainly not. That's a good thing. It means you're always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.

...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214

I care about the human race, and I strive to understand it.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.

Trying to be more than human one becomes less.

It's never just a game when you're winning.

Working on it.

The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

We all got dreams and we all star reaching

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

Trying will do anything in this world.

There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.

Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.