Quotes About Striving

Every day of my life I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

Life is a beautiful thing. But you're always striving to be better in your art, striving to be heard. And obviously in a movie business, it's striving to be noticed and appreciated.

I have been running so sweaty my whole life Urgent for a finish line And I have been missing the rapture this whole time Of being forever incomplete

All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.

A dedication to perfection means that we are doomed always to be just a heartbeat way - from exposure. Perfection is unchanging; lives are ongoing.

And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these; and he is dead, who will not fight; and who dies fighting has increase.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.

The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.

There will be times, for example, when you feel you are faking it. However hard you try genuinely to practice, it just doesn't feel right. And on the rare occasions it does feel authentic, the sensation is over almost before it began. So, try to be content with your practice, whatever it feels like, even when you are doing little more than paying it lip service, because at least you are making an effort.

I begin to think a body may get any reasonable thing in this world if they will only try hard enough for it!

It was a land of facilities, where nothing had to be striven for, and success was indistinguishable from failure.

A man's reach must exceed his grasp, dear boy, or what the dickens is a heaven for?

God does not use extraordinary striving. He uses extraordinary availability to reach the world with the message of his Kingdom.

But at the same time, the humanist in me was always a bit troubled by the rather bleak, rather unappetizing picture the theory painted of the human condition—forever striving to justify our actions after the fact.

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.

Trying is not enough

Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on one thing, leaving out another important thing altogether. None of us will ever be perfectly balanced in our spiritual lives, our intellectual lives, our emotional lives, our family lives, in relationships with other human beings, or in our business lives. BUT WE ARE CHALLENGED TO TRY, WITH THE HELP OF GOD. We are meant to live in the scriptures.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

To kirk the nearer, from God more far,Has been an old-said saw.And he that strives to touch the stars,Oft stumbles at a straw.

When he was at the last gasp.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.