Quotes About Striving

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

Competition therefore is moral; it is a condition for the development and sustenance of the right kind of person. Correspondingly, constraints on competition are immoral; they inhibit the development and sustenance of the right kind of person. Even

No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

Playing lovely football and making wonderful saves is not a challenge.

Understanding why we are here, what we are supposed to be doing, relationships, and striving to do more other than play football - when you get understanding like that and apply it, it works wonders.

You do your best, you work hard for yourself, for your family and others.

My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.

Working at the 'Review', if anything, the impression you got was, 'I'll never be good enough. I'll never work hard enough. I'll never be devoted enough.' These people are staying up all night over their sentences!

I've always known that to have anything, you've got to work hard at it.

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.

When the mind stops striving, the world's not a problem. A constant heart won't waver from the truth.

Homer tells us about some one who made it his business ±¹µ½ ±Á¹Ã??¹½ º±¹ ÅÀµ¹Á¿Ç¿½ µ¼¼µ½±¹ ±»»É½ — always to excel and to stand higher than other people. What an uncompanionable disagreeable person he must have been! Homer's heroes generally came to a bad end, and I

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Because the zest of life is effort, my son, not attainment.

that good yet, but she did

I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.

I always tell my staff, "Better is good." I'll take better every time, because better is hard.

Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom of another ladder.

We're obviously having a tough time, like the other teams did.