Quotes About Striving

I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

While we strive to be like God, we're pretty apt to fail, and we let ourselves down. I think more so than [we let God down]. God knows that we are dust, and I don't think He's too uptight about it.

Are you not in a race; and is not the prize the crown of glory; and should you then sit still or take your ease? (281)

The path to Christian perfection always runs across the collapse of our own moral efforts and self-established ideals.

We only fail when we stop trying.

Nothings ever easy!!!!

Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.

For indeed, a man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if in the end he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions.

Cabia a cada um de nós fazer o máximo da própria vida.

in some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying it all worked out.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further, trying to fly higher… and falling.

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory.

Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.

To the man who himself strives earnestly God also lends a helping hand.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Lest too light winningMake the prize light.

'Tis a common proof,That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;But when he once attains the upmost round,He then unto the ladder turns his back,Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degreesBy which he did ascend.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

O! when degree is shaked,Which is the ladder to all high designs,The enterprise is sick.