Quotes About Striving

A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.

I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.

I've been trying to be champion since day one.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

Definitely, as a competitor, you want to get out there and play.

I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.

I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.

I've always targeted that number eight spot.

Sports build good habits, confidence, and discipline. They make players into community leaders and teach them how to strive for a goal, handle mistakes, and cherish growth opportunities.

Some people settle for what they're given instead of working hard for what they want.

T]he forcing of any special brand of freedom and democracy on a people, whether they want it or not, by the brute force of war will be a denial of those very democratic principles which we are striving to advance.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

Inscribe all human effort with one word, Artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

But little do or can the best of us:That little is achieved through Liberty.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

Now a' is done that men can do,And a' is done in vain.

[Ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.

In the end, for all of us who strive to achieve, whether in business or in other walks of life, the end of life is a disappointment. The personal pleasure over a lifetime was mostly in the striving and in one's friendships and interactions. The pinnacle of achievement does not bring happiness, but at best the reflection that the striving achieved some benefit for others, unappreciative and unrelated though those others may

Bu da baÅŸka bir denemedir.

I fought...I fought and I fought...until I...couldn't remember any more.

That's extremely important to understand. He had given up. Because he'd given up, the surface of life was comfortable for him. He worked reasonably hard, was easy to get along with and, except for an occasional glimpse of inner emptiness shown in some short stories he wrote at the time, his days passed quite usually.