Quotes About Striving

I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.

I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.

Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.

My best advice is this—by the time you meet your Maker, and may it be a long, long time from now, I hope you can close your eyes on a life where you did your damn best and tried your damn hardest. It's not winning that's really winning. It's never giving up.

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Trying to be the best at anything carries its own special risks, in or out of the Twilight Zone.

There is no 'easy button' when it comes to beating the competition. Success is simply about working hard and delivering results and staying uncomfortable.

The individual's striving for his own gain, in fine, without an equal emphasis on social welfare, no longer automatically brings good to the community.

It is always pathetic to watch the efforts a man makes to cling to a straw, especially when one is oneself the straw.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

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.

Albertine was one of those who took on too much in order to remain perpetually dissatisfied with herself.

Effortless. Easy. The lack of trying is what makes them lovely. We all try too hard. Striving wears down our edges, dulls the best of us.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

I ought to have ... become a star in the sky. Instead of which I have remained stuck on earth.

Nati vivi, volevano vivere.

Life is for trying. Don't you see?

In the wild, he thought, there would be almost no waiting. Waiting was what happened to you when you lost control, when events were out of your hands or your freedom was taken from you; but in the wild there would always be trying. In the wild there must be trying and trying, he thought, and no waiting at all. Waiting was a position of dependency.

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

One thing I have discovered since I've been ill, though, is that nobody ever knows anybody, and maybe least of all the people who are closest to them. Sort of a business of not being able to see the trees for the woods. We all live in isolated prisons of our own bodies and there's no real contact with any other human being. That's what sex is, in a way, isn't it, a desperate striving for contact? With which cheerful Thought for Today, I will bid you good afternoon.

The true success is to labour.

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.

It is weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

Rather fail and struggle than succeed and be complacent.