Quotes About Striving

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

You know, I'm like Avis rent-a-car: Because I'm insignificant, I try harder.

It happens that way when a man strives to become the centre of attention, to bring sensational news somewhere.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

Her life was split. Both day and night were competing for her.

Chi tende continuamente verso l'alto deve aspettarsi, prima o poi, di essere colto dalla vertigine.

Faith isn't knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.

Faith isn't knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.

We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

This is what it means to believe in ascension and fear climbing.

We shouldn't have to accept it, either. Mostly, we don't. We understand the odds are against us, but we still strive for something more. We make our best effort each time

You could die this day, so you should strive to do your best while you still lived. - Richard Cypher Rahl

Do not seek perfection. None exists. All we can do is strive.

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly," said Granny, fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege.

Et vous... nous... sommes-nous responsables des progrès et des réussites de l'humanité ? - Mais nous les partageons... Nous sommes cette humanité. Cette humanité qui fait de son mieux pour se tuer.

I feel maybe at times I've just been a bit too desperate to do well, almost tried too hard. But even though I haven't contributed as I would have liked, I've still enjoyed the cricket just as much.

I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!

I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.

I kinda see everyone as competition.

You have to beat the king to be the king. No one is going to hand you a gold medal.

I may not be perfect, but God knows I'm trying . . . and God knowing should count for something.

Thus we are driven, lost souls, from camp-fire flame to camp-fire flame, know nothing of our next rest and nothing of the journey's aim

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.