Quotes About Striving

The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.

Such men feel imprisoned by invisible chains—walled in, sewn up in layers of batting. For them, the final feat of autoliberation was all too foreseeable.

All his life he believed he was slumming toward something good.

It seems good enough; parts seem very good indeed. She has lavish hopes, of course—she wants this to be her best book, the one that finally matches her expectations.

An intensely competitive young man who believed he was superior to others, Trump accepted that people would seek advantages wherever they could find them.

I can accept failure but I can't accept not trying!

I can accept failure but I can not accept not trying.

DI can accept failure, but i can't accept not trying.

Failure I can accept, what I can not accept is not trying

I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

We can live in the pleasure of striving for the Creator. Then we will no longer be deceived as before when we wanted to reveal Him and enjoy this love. This is a lie, and this is how we kill it. Love can be enjoyed only if you go above your egoistic desires. Any relationship below this level destroys love.

Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

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.

I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.

getting good passes.

Life, in short, just wants to be.

Let her work for it.

Thus men who are naturally conscious of what they are shun nothing, so much as rest; they would do anything to be disturbed.

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions. However different the means they may employ, they all strive towards this goal. The reason why some go to war and some do not is the same desire in both, but interpreted in two different ways. The will never takes the least step except to that end. This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

There are men who reach the moon when most of us can not peel off the ground

if you weren't cheating, you weren't trying.

In order to cease our striving, we must transfer our trust away from our own abilities, our own accomplishments, our own strength, and place it on His provision.

There is only now, today, this present moment, this point in time. Waiting for 'someday' is, like striving for perfection, really just an excuse. 'Someday' is a concept that, to quote my mentor, Jean Renoir 'exists only in the mind, not in reality.

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.