Quotes About Striving

He once fantasized that his worries would be stilled if he lived elsewhere, if he attained a few professional goals, if he had a family. But nothing has ever made a difference. He is, he can see, anxious to the core, in his most basic make-up: a frightened, ill-adjusted creature.

Efortul-o cale spre autenticitate ?i glorie.

Struggle is not an act; it is an attitude. If we believe that we must fight to get what we want, we will toil over everything we do. If we recognize, however, that the universe works more efficiently for us when we approach it with ease, life will serve us in miraculous ways.

If she is wise, she will accommodate the inadequacy. If he is wise, he will strive to grow,' said Sita, still looking at Ahilya and the hesitant tenderness of Gautama. Kushadhvaja

The difference between mediocrity and excellence is often a matter of effort.

I had set myself an unattainable ideal. Such human skill I could summon wasn't enough for the job. I felt the suicidal despair of all who longed to do what they couldn't, what only a few in each century could – whether blessed or cursed in spirit. No achievement was ever finite. There was no absolute summit. No peak of Everest to plant a flag on. Success was someone else's opinion.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.

Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others

The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

the best we know how.

They which run in a race run all, but one receives the crown. " But of us on the other hand it is said: " So run that you may obtain. " [ 1 Corinthians 9: 24 ] Our master of the games is not grudging; he does not give the palm to one and disgrace another. His wish is that all his athletes may alike win garlands.

There's enough pressure keeping this perfect little creature alive. Just do the best you can, whatever your best is.

The idea that one can build peace while encouraging the striving for possession and profit is an illusion, and a dangerous one, because it deprives people of recognizing that they are confronted with a clear alternative: either a radical change of their character or the perpetuity of war.