Quotes About Striving

The most important thing, in anything you do, is always trying your hardest, because even if you try your hardest and it's not as good as you'd hoped, you still have that sense of not letting yourself down.

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

I really tried to put my best foot forward all these years.

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

Trophies or no trophies, we are all just striving to do some really good art and help people's lives with it.

I'm desperately ambitious, and one of the things I haven't been able to do at Everton is win a trophy.

I did take part in a couple of Vishy Anand's training camps. The experience has truly been invaluable. I saw from up close the level of preparation that I should be striving for.

Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.

The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us.

There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have got richer, their people have become no happier.

Because we're trying, because we want, it's very hard to get.

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

It comes down to competitiveness. I hate to lose. We want people in our organization that hate to lose - that want to compete every single day, so you continue to strive to win.

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it.

I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.

I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.

Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what I strive to achieve .

Life is all about finding challenges for yourself that you want to try to achieve.

I'm not a bad person. I'm just doing my thing... I'm, you know, running, I want to do something that's good. It's not an easy thing to do.

Too many strive for the unachievable, and this pursuit consumes them. They rush frantic and desperate and so reveal weakness in the face of sadness. More than weakness, in fact. It is in truth a kind of cowardice, that which espouses an evasive disposition as if it were a virtue.

The spokesman smiled. "Ah, but, Kruppe, Gifts are not easily attained, nor are Virtues, nor are Doubts easily overcome, and Hungers are ever the impetus to climbing.