Quotes About Striving

el afán de alcanzar algo es menor que lo que logramos alcanzar.

I just try to compete. That's all. There's gonna be faster guys, stronger guys, but you just gotta give effort.

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

But when it comes down to it, I'm a guy who feels like I should be a champion in NXT.

I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.

You have to work really hard to be first place in life.

I think people try to make the most of their time on Earth and also to 'fix' their time on Earth.

You think about all the years that a USA volleyball team has been in the Olympics and have tried and have fallen short. Then to feel like you're pushing for something and you're trying to find that edge and then you finally do it, it's like, Whoa, it worked!'

Whoever you're playing against, you want to do as well as you can.

Whoever scores the most goals, the Golden Boot is a by-product of that. I want to be seen up there, at that level.

I strive for perfection, but I'm not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.

Whole Foods Market tries to embody all of the principles of conscious capitalism all the time, but like any person or company, we sometimes fall short.

The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

I'm ambitious. I do think you have a tendency to be less happy sometimes when you're a seeker. You can be disenchanted because you're not getting what you want, and you're always striving and looking ahead instead of just being in the moment.

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

That top 100 is a big barrier that every tennis player strives to break into.

I've wanted to - and have been - testing myself against the best guys in the world.

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.

Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.

Battered at my dreams like a moth trying to destroy itself in a lantern's flame.

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

Once, he added, you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.