Quotes About Striving

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're own.

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

Success always demands a greater effort.

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.

Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly.

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.

I am made, crudely, for success.

Thou didst thy best, that is success.

Attain the unattainable.

Success is doing the best you possibly can with what you've been given. There are an alarming number of wealthy failures in the world today.

The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.

The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.

I don't have to be a success. I can just try.

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.