Quotes About Striving

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.

You must set yourself free From the striving of Man And the applause of the World You must fly as you can... - No hope forever No orietur. Science and patience, The torment is sure. The fire within you, Soft silken embers, Is our whole duty But no one remembers. It is recovered. What? Eternity. In the whirling light Of the sun in the sea.

Todo ese esfuerzo, todo ese empeño, todo ese riesgo, para satisfacer un deseo tan mezquino. ?El tamaño de una satisfacción no lo puede medir sino el que la alcanza.

In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.

If you're broke, you don't want to rap about being broke; you gonna rap about hustling and getting that bread.

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

If you talk to most ambitious people, people who are high achievers, they're rarely at peace with what they're doing because they need an engine to keep moving.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.

When I see Mario Gotze, his development does not go in the right direction. He has outstanding qualities, but he has not reached his potential for whatever reason. His charisma is not so good, fellow players, coaches, fans and the media do not feel that he is fighting against his current situation. He's more an introvert player.

With 'Ilustrado,' I set out to change the way we read literature, and I think I failed spectacularly. In fact, I know I failed. In reaching further than I could, I may not have produced a life- or literature-changing book, but I did produce one I am proud of.

Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.

Hopefully I can win grand slams in the future but until then I have to work very, very hard.

I've always aspired to Cary Grant's level of coolness and failed miserably.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

Man is not satisfied with just being man . He wants to be everything, all creatures, and still remain himself. Man has unfathomable depths to his goodness and his evil, his intelligence and his ignorance--he is a dark region of wells and wishes to drink at them all.'-- O-kolkol

That is probably the most painful part: when you are still tormented by the thought that one last effort of will might improve things.

It's never just a game when you're winning.

Hans: [Y]ou can't conceive what a great fellow I'm going to be. The seed of immortality has sprouted within me. Deronda: Only a fungoid growth, I daresay - a crowing disease in the lungs.

There is no sorrow I have thought about more than that - to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

How can you bear to be so contemptible, when others are working and striving, and there are so many things to be done–how can you bear to be fit for nothing in the world that is useful?