Quotes About Striving

Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.

Effort is grossly underrated.

Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.

If I fail, I should not fail for lack of trying, but in spite.

It is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, 'You must do this. I can't.

It's good to be contented but it's better to strive harder.

Each day we do the best we can, and then tomorrow we try again!

I may not be perfect, but God knows I'm trying . . . and God knowing should count for something.

Good enough never is

We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

I believe every single person on this planet is a dreamer but you have to make a vigorous effort to make it in life.

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. -- Author unknown

Much effort is needed for a dream to come true.

There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.

but if the Negro is so distinctly inferior, it is a strange thing to me that it takes such tremendous effort on the part of the white man to make him realize it, and to keep him in the same place into which inferior men naturally fall.

The ripest peach is highest on the tree.

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

Well, being a perfectionist seems okay from the outside, but a perfectionist never enjoys anything, no matter how well it goes, because nothing is ever perfect.

We are all caught in the stream of a complicated legacy - a proof of the limits of human reason, a proof of our boundlessness. A declaration that were were down here on this crowded, lonely planet, a declaration that we mattered, we living clumps of ash, that each of us was once somebody, that we strove for what we could never have, that we could admit as much. That was us - funny and lousy and great all at once.

From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.

St. Augustine imagines standing on tiptoes, trying to catch a glimpse of a God who is unbound by time and space, who knows all, is all-powerful, and is entirely unbearably good. We can't imagine such a God. All our thoughts are bounded by time, space, weakness, our own sinfulness. But we can just brush up against the underside of such thoughts as we reach reach reach . . . and then we trip over the crucified slave who is washing our feet.

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