Quotes About Striving

When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it. And even if you do it's a hollow victory. In order to sustain the victory you have to prove yourself again and again in some other way, and again and again and again, driven forever to fill a false image, haunted by the fear that the image is not true and someone will find out. That's never the way.

Versuch, das Erlebnis zu halten, zu fixieren, schlägt fehl. Die Absolutheit ist nicht zu bewahren. Ich schliesse daran, die Welt kann nicht ohne Böse bestehen, es bringt Bewegung in die Welt. Das Gute allein bewirkt Starre.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

Oh, I don't know. I've come so far short in so many things. I haven't done what I meant to do when I began to teach last fall. I haven't lived up to my ideals. None of us ever do, said Mrs. Allan with a sigh. But then, Anne, you know what Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. Hold fast to your ideals, Anne.

I've done my best and I begin to understand what is meant by the 'joy of the strife.' Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Kendimi geliÅŸtirmek için gerektiÄŸi kadar çabalamad?m.

BaÅŸar?s?zl?k deÄŸil, hedeflerini yüksek tutmamak suçtur.' Ä°deallerimiz olmal?, onlara ulaÅŸmak için çabalamal?y?z; asla tam olarak baÅŸar?l? olmasak bile. Ä°deallerimiz olmasa hayat berbat bir ÅŸey olurdu. Onlar olduÄŸunda ise ihtiÅŸaml? ve müthiÅŸ oluyor. Ä°deallerine s?k? tutun, Anne.

Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them.

that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Yine de çok çabalamak da önemli bir ÅŸey say?l?r, deÄŸil mi?

you know what Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With

A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

It is human nature to strive.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Don't worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition

She 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.

It's never enough, Ciro. Never enough. Believe me, eventually, you run out of ways to make a woman happy.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another—which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.

we cannot help but ask what comes of all of this Ã¢â'¬Â¦ there is nothing to show but the satisfaction of hunger and sexual passion, and Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a little momentary gratification Ã¢â'¬Â¦ now and then, between Ã¢â'¬Â¦ endless needs and exertions.