Quotes About Striving

challenge and difficulty mattered less to the great majority than accomplishment and gain

Khaderbhai once said that if we envy someone for all the right reasons, we're half way to wisdom. I hope he wasn't right about that. I hope good envy takes you further than that, because a lifetime has passed since that day at the wire, and I still envy Anand's calm communion with fate, and I long for it with all my flawed and striving heart.

It doesn't matter what you did, or what you were. It doesn't even matter what you are. It's what you try to be that counts.

I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

If you strive toward the perfect run, accepting that you will always come up short of that is very intriguing. It makes me think about how in life in general, we always want to strive toward perfection, but sometimes perfection would be the worst thing.

I feel that The American Dream is this fallacy that you come to the United States and win lotto. That's a disservice to The American Dream because the American Dream is worth striving for. And it's not easy.

Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.

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

We are in a situation where we can have a developing backup quarterback because of the excellence of Tony Romo. We can have that behind him. To me, that's what you're ideally striving for.

Perfection, to me ,means you spend much too much time trying to be perfect.

I grew up a happy kid in Toronto. I've never suffered. I've never even had a real job! But I understand sadness and striving, and those two things tie into all the roles that I've played.

Nobody can be whatever they want to be. No kid can do whatever they want to do. It's a total lie. But they have the right to try and do whatever they want to do. That's their right, to aim to do whatever they want to do.

Some would think the leader of a people should be a model of what to strive for. But maybe God knew trying to be perfect is just not healthy, or maybe God could not find any perfect human beings. Maybe it's just not possible to be perfect.

Finally, for his sake and for that of everyone else alive, I hope he grows up in a world where science is acknowledged not as an ideology but as the best tool we have for understanding the universe, and where striving for the truth is recognized as the most noble quest humankind will ever undertake.

You never win the silver. You only lose the gold.

I tried so hard, I farted! Mrs.

Do the best you can, but still feel that is not enough.

I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.

I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and of course I probably fail every time.

Just keep trying, and your dreams will come true. But you have to give it all your time, effort, and soul.

A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.

God always strives together with those who strive.

All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together.