Quotes About Striving

Trying" is failing with honor.

Unnumbered suppliants crowd Preferment's gate Athirst for wealth, and burning to be great; Delusive Fortune hears th' incessant call, They mount, they shine, evaporate, and fall.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn't want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

That sucks, though, Wes said finally, his voice low. You're just setting yourself up to fail, because you'll never get everything perfect. Says who? He just looked at me. The world, he said, gesturing all around us, as if this party, this deck encompassed it all. The universe. There's just no way. And why would you want everything to be perfect, anyway? I don't want everything to be perfect, I said. Just me, I thought. Somehow. I just want—

It took a lot of work to be perfect.

I would never make a lion, I knew that; but I might pick up a small gain here and there in the attempt.

La gente non fa le cose per cui ha un vero talento, ma quelle a cui la spinge la preoccupazione. Se sono bravi a riparare le automobili, devono cantare il Don Giovanni; se sanno cantare, devono fare l'architetto; e se hanno il bernoccolo dell'architettura, vogliono diventare ispettori scolastici o pittori astrattisti o qualunque altra cosa. QUALUNQUE COSA!

Everybody wanted to be what he was to the limit.

Whoever strives in ceaseless toil, Him we may grant redemption

The Lord: Whilst still man strives, still must he stray

Siempre que tenga deseos y aspiraciones, el hombre puede equivocarse.

Specia umana se poarta pretutindeni la fel. Majoritatea oamenilor isi intrebuinteaza cea mai mare parte din timp ca sa traiasca si putina libertate care le mai ramane ii inspaimanta atat de tare, incat fac tot ce le sta in putinta ca sa scape de dansa. O, destin al omului!

la tierra, no te será prohibido intentarlo. Siempre que tenga deseos y aspiraciones, el hombre puede equivocarse.

Who ever exerts himself in constant striving, Him we can redeem.

Naša tragedija ne leži u životu, nego u žudnji za savršenstvom ne?eg nesavršenog,

We did our best, Anna and I. We forgave each other for all we were not.

version, though it fell somewhat short of the mood of, say, the last scene of "Die Meistersinger,

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

The great game of life is not about money; it is about doing your best to join the battle to build anew ourselves, our communities, our nation, and our world.

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

Anyone, therefore, who obscures the glory of God, puts himself in the position of striving to subvert the eternal purpose of God. .

Part of maturing is knowing the difference between striving and actively moving in the unforced rhythms of grace. Fruitfulness all flows from a happy, ecstatic impulse toward our divine calling.

But if the striving toil of self-effort is involved, it ceases to be faith.