Quotes About Striving

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.

In 1986, we gave it our best shot but we didn't get the run of the ball.

I've tried my very best to keep all the balls in the air and be home.

I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

The bar where I want to get to is astronomically high.

As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.

When you want the belt, you have to work for it.

But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.

The better you did—the more contests you won—the greater the next goal, the greater the next mission.

She hated this feeling, the sensation of trying and failing to get her arms around something big. The way political opinions seemed always to be expressed with a total sureness of tone. The way that sureness was at odds with every true thought she'd ever had.

All happy mornings resemble one another, as do all unhappy mornings, and that's at the bottom of what makes them so deeply unhappy: the feeling that this unhappiness has happened before, that efforts to avoid it will at best reinforce it, and probably even exacerbate it, that the universe is, for whatever inconceivable, unnecessary, and unjust reason, conspiring against the innocent sequence of clothes, breakfast, teeth and egregious cowlicks, backpacks, shoes, jackets, goodbye. Jacob

It felt as if an only life should be better than good enough, but how many efforts for more have ended with having nothing?

never stop trying and never try stopping

we have to give are best or die

She had died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for

he'd use both hands to try to pry my thumb

Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.

Alles, was der Mensch tut, unvollkommen ist. Aber wer will sich schon seine Unvollkommenheit eingestehen?

What could be more natural for me than to look upon the Abbot as representing the highest human ideal worth striving for, just as the position of the humble village priest had appeared to my father in his own boyhood days?

What does a title mean to me? I do not need a title. My name, which I achieved with my own strength, is my title. I only wish that posterity would sometime confirm the fact that I have striven to achieve my program decently and honestly..

Humans are ridiculous. We're all pathetic strivers who will fall short. If you can accept that, it's optimistic because you can shoot for the moon and know you're never going to get there, and that's OK.