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Quotes About Striving

It's easy to hate the game when your losing.
~ Richard Paul Evans
I hope it's love. I'm trying really hard to make it love.
~ Richard Siken
We are all just trying to be holy.
~ Richard Siken
I try, I do. I try and try. A happy ending?
~ Richard Siken
I don't have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don't think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.
~ Richard Stallman
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
~ Richard Whately
Just getting by one more day isn't good enough anymore. There must be more to life, more to hope for.
~ Richelle Mead
In every election in which he ran—not only in college, but thereafter—he displayed a willingness to do whatever was necessary to win: a willingness so complete that even in the generous terms of political morality, it amounted to amorality.
~ Robert A. Caro
To die trying is the proudest humans thing.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
A man's reach should exceed his grasp
~ Robert Browning
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
~ Robert Browning
Your reach should exceed your grasp, or what's a heaven for
~ Robert Browning
Man's reach much exceed his grasp, or what is heaven for?
~ Robert Browning
She strives, understanding the futility of it, for perfection.
~ Robert Coover
You can't make love to your fame. Even though some people try.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
What use was utopia without joy, after all? What was the point of all their striving if it did not include the laughter of the young?
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
I'll do my best.
~ Kristen Britain
The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good.
~ L. Frank Baum
I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.
~ Dorothy Hamill
I was always trying to win the world, but somewhere I lost you.
~ Neil Diamond
Our religion doesn't demand perfection but instead a manageable strive to better ourselves.
~ Nouman Ali Khan
I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
~ Plotinus
I think were all a part of something. We're striving (to be) more than we are...I really don't only see religion as being for people who are perfect. They've got it all set. And I'm not like that.
~ Lino Rulli
It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.
~ August Bournonville