Quotes About Striving

Striving and surrender are not compatible. If you are overeager to achieve something, notice the force of your intention. Watch your faster breathing and feel your tenser muscles. This clear observing, this quality of attention, can take you to a state of relaxed awareness.

Do not live as if you have ten thousand years left. Your fate hangs over you. While you are still living, while you still exist on this Earth, strive to become a genuinely great person." —Marcus Aurelius, Roman

Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching

You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

Can life be counted upon to limit itself? No. It is the mindless striving of two to become infinity. Can death be counted upon to limit itself? Never. It is the equally mindless effort of zero to encompass infinity.

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.

The task of government was not to stop selfish striving—a hopeless task—but to harness it for the public good.

task of government was not to stop selfish striving—a hopeless task—but to harness it for the public good.

his view that in framing a government "every man ought to be supposed a knave and to have no other end in all his actions but private interests." The task of government was not to stop selfish striving—a hopeless task—but to harness it for the public good.

She confided to Eltringham that she wanted to kill herself in order to stop the suppressive body thetans from taking over her mind.

any structure that has a ranking system tempts you to try to climb it.

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Legal language strives for concision and avoids ambiguity wherever possible. The result is inevitably dull, but all that striving and avoiding really teaches a person how to write.

It is merely that there is only so much people can do to be happy, no matter what they think they should do.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Tomaso of Florence. known as Masaccio, showed by his perfect works how those who took their nourishment from anything but nature, mistress of masters, were laboring in vain.

It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

You can do more, you can always do more.

I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.