Quotes About Striving

to be aware that you must compete somehow, and yet that wealth and beauty are not in your realm.

Ä°stediÄŸim bütün kitaplar? okuyamam, olmak istediÄŸim bütün insanlar olamam ve istediÄŸim hayatlar? süremem, istediÄŸim bütün becerileri edinemem. Öyleyse ne istiyorum?

I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living.

For us there is only the trying.

For us there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

Sometimes, our best just isn't good enough ? not for those around us, not for those who love us, not for ourselves.

Leopardo, striving very hard to pick fights with all his companions and unable to do so-for they were canny and fearful, and knew him in a most hazardous mood-as each eluded him grew more prone to aggression.

As I knew my Father in a new way, I discovered who I was as His son. That I was already all I could hope to be because I was in Christ. All of my striving to *become* had actually hidden the truth from me, because in striving to become, I was only denying who I already was.

It is human nature to strive.

I'm strangling her. She's not the one I want to eliminate. All this suppressing and holding her down, keeping her caged, perpetuating this fraud, this sham. I can't do it anymore." He shook his head. "I can't." He raised his chin and looked at me. "It won't go away. No matter how much I wish, or pray, she's always with me. She is me. I am her. I want to be her. I want to be Luna." "You

Svaki nered se opravdava ako teži da iza?e iz sebe, možda se kroz ludilo može dospjeti do razuma koji ne?e biti onaj razum ?iji je nedostatak ludilo.

Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.

I seem to be allergic to diligence, and Lola said, Ha. What you're allergic to is trying.

patient striving with tolerances in the quiet war against error.

the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn't work if you push it.

I had vied for a championship; I had been involved in being a No. 1 contender, and having runs where I got close but I never got there. Being able to finally get there and be the guy to carry the load and carry it for a while, I felt like I arrived, and it validated my career.

The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.

Each of our powers seeks its own outlet, each of our needs its own immediate gratification; we have not the subordination of all our powers to reason and of reason to God which would unify all our striving; every one of us is a civil war. At two points principally the disorder is at its worst, the passions and the imagination.

The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices—what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement, the passing over of empty temptation, our preservation of the quiet spaces, an intentional striving to become the masters of our mastery.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

Love doesn't mean a state of perfect caring. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now—and to go on caring through joyful times and through times that may bring us pain.

There is no flying without wings.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.