Quotes About Striving

We do not do everything perfectly, but the intentions are there.

I'm such a perfectionist and I want to do everything right, kick every goal, do everything perfectly, but that is not reality.

I've always tried to live my life perfectly.

I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

If a man is born for success, another may with a god's help 20 sharpen his edge and drive him towards prodigious feats of glory;   and without exertion few have won joy,   which is a radiance in men's lives beyond all deeds.

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

Menarik. Bagiku siapa pun berusaha selalu menarik.

Bagaimanapun baik yang telah kalian peroleh dari kehidupan ini, masih ada saja yang kalian rasa kurang. Yang berada dalam kekurangan ingin terbebas dari kekurangan itu, ingin mendapatkan kemakmuran yang melimpah. Yang telah berada dalam kecukupan ingin lebih cukup lagi. Dari perasaan kurang itu, dari keinginan mendapatkan yang lebih baik itu, timbullah impian. Dan impian itu bisa menjadi padat, menjadi cita-cita. Dan cita-cita itu menjadi pola yang menjadi dasar dan petunjuk dari perbuatan.

You will not achieve greatness until your spirit is flying into the space of striving and sacrifice for others.

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things, but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are...Men do not really live for honors or for pay their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

I run as a musk-deer runs in the shadow of the forest mad with his own perfume. The night is the night of mid-May, the breeze is the breeze of the south. I lose my way and I wander, I seek what I cannot get, I get what I do not seek. From my heart comes out and dances the image of my own desire. The gleaming vision flits on. I try to clasp it firmly, it eludes me and leads me astray. I seek what I cannot get, I get what I do not seek.

You're not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I'm not afraid to do that.

Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.

I'm not perfect. As a Christian, you're not perfect, you know, but you're walking every day and trying to stay connected.

When people call something a 'fail,' it's because you tried to accomplish something but didn't make it. If you're just walking down the street and something bad just happens to you, that's not really a fail on your part. You might call that situation a fail.

I'm looking for pound-for-pound list to be the best in the world and it takes belts to get there so let's get there.

We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.

I always seek the highest challenge, the biggest challenge.

Everyone is trying to make that breakthrough into the top 100.

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

Much effort, much prosperity.

As far as success, I have always felt that success is determined by competitiveness.

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.