Quotes About Striving

To get away from self is really the secret of all striving. And yet, most of us fail woefully. The more many of us try the more tightly we seem to be bound.

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

There's a competitive fire inside me. I can't get enough. I live to compete daily in my own life.

The warrior is always trying to improve.

Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.

There is but one failure in life and that is the failure to try.

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life.

I'm a dad now and whatever I'm doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it - usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times.

I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

Human life is too difficult for people.

Life is a ladder, it's not a bed

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

I think life is a wondrous thing. I'm happy to try pretty hard.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

If you strive to be perfect in everything, whether it's possible or not, you will always live a more fulfilled life.

Most adults with ADD are struggling to express a part of themselves that often seems unraveled as they strive to join the thought behind unto the thought before.

faster in areas of our life where effort and striving are, in fact, profoundly counterproductive. This is because the problem of choking or freezing up extends

He found her pretty in a bewildered, washed-out way, but it was her restlessness that aroused him, the quiet exasperation of a woman who longs to throw herself into something significant, but cannot find what it is.

At any given time, we are all doing the best we can. The problem is, our best often isn't good enough for us. We then punish ourselves, denying ourselves peace because we feel we don't deserve it. A sad situation remedied when we finally accept, we are doing the best we can.

Leadership through self-differentiation is not easy; learning techniques and imbibing data are far easier. Nor is striving or achieving success as a leader without pain: there is the pain of isolation, the pain of loneliness, the pain of personal attacks, the pain of losing friends. That's what leadership is all about.

Life owns own purpose, each one of us, breathes and struggles under that philosophy; thus, it defines; indeed, a conflict of self-interest in all dimensions.

Our culture has an idea of competition in the pursuit of excellence that can make anyone not striving for the top feel like a worthless, non-productive bystander. This applies not only to one's career but even to one's leisure.