Quotes About Striving

I am very competitive - with myself and everybody else. I'm petty, too.

With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.

You love the competitive one-on-one aspect, where you look across the net, and you're trying to beat your opponent. You're doing everything you physically can to win on that day.

I'm very picky; I'm never happy with anything. It's so hard to give the record away and accept that you're done.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.

America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism.

There are two Mustafa Kemals: one is I, the flesh and bone Mustafa Kemal... the scond Mustafa Kemal I cannot describe with the word 'I.' That Mustafa Kemal is not I - it is 'We.' That Mustafa Kemal is the enlightened and warrior collectivity that is striving for the new thought, the new life, and the Great Ideal on every corner of this country.

The Warriors are competition, and competition makes the best of us.

All your failures and hopes, your suffering and striving, are inconsequential, compared with this. They are nothing. You are nothing. It was a relief to be nothing; it felt deep and beautiful and true.

I wish I was perfect as you think I am. I wish I were good. I'm not. I want to be good enough. For you,

To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgment, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of who we are and of our true value. This

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' I realized then where the problem lay. My students, and so many of our young people today, want a good life. They love (even if they don't always appreciate) liberty. They all want to be happy. But I realized that day that my class was a microcosm of what is wrong with some any of nation's young people. What happened to pursuit? We aren't handed happiness. We're given an opportunity to pursue it.

No god can make you happy until you put some effort

The final mark of a saint is not perfection, but lived virtue. It is the striving for holiness throughout the arc of a life that makes a saint.

Dolgan: 'Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when 'tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.

If you are champions, you have to work harder than before.

Going out there and losing is so easy. I want stuff to be hard - that's why I want to win championships, I want to win games.

If he's chasing the full restoration of his legacy, he's chasing something that he really can't get.

I think we're always chasing a win once the ball goes up.

Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.

I want the supporters to know that we're always striving to improve.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.