Quotes About Striving

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Pa i reproduciranje je jedan oblik stvaralaštva. Oni koji sviraju uvijek za?injaju juhu svoga sviranja ne?im vlastitim, ne?im što pripada samo njima. Njihova krv struji tom glazbom. Svaki izvo?a? ima svoj skromni cilj: dobro svirati. No i izvo?a? se mora podrediti autoru glazbe koju izvodi, kaže Erika. Priznaje da joj je to problem. Jer ona se nikako ne može podrediti. Njen je glavni cilj isti kao i cilj svih ostalih izvo?a?a: biti bolji od ostalih!

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life striving after something he thinks will make him so

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

What I found was a hidden source of anguish that wasn't just widespread but nearly universal among people who have done well in their careers. I came to call this the "striver's curse": people who strive to be excellent at what they do often wind up finding their inevitable decline terrifying, their successes increasingly unsatisfying, and their relationships lacking.

The decline problem is a double whammy, then: we need ever-greater success to avoid dissatisfaction, yet our abilities to stay even are declining. No, it's actually a triple whammy, because as we try to stay even, we wind up in patterns of addictive behavior such as workaholism, which puts strivers into unhealthy relationship patterns at the cost of deep connection to spouses, children, and friends.

If you come into Formula 1, and you try to eat each other or perform on the highest level, and equalisation is what you need after the first race, and you cry out after the first race, it's not how we've done things in the past and not how we've moaned.

We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.

I didn't want to just rally at the baseline, even though that happened a lot.

There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

I'll always be chasing you... Glory.

Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.

I want to score more goals; the main ambition is goals.

My job is to score goals.

If I want to be the GOAT, I've got to take out No. 1 contenders.

I try to be a good person - I don't always succeed, but that's what I'm shooting for.

I'm competitive, and I love to create challenges for myself. Maybe that's not always a good thing. It can make life complicated.

I think we're all trying our hardest, and a lot of times we do bad things and need to do more good things. We need to be more caring, more forgiving, more loving.

allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.