Quotes About Striving

When you try to do everything perfectly, it gets very tiring.

Be thirsty to always try to achieve something more.

I'm by no means the person that I strive to be. I don't think anyone is the person that we strive to be. But I try.

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

The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you're trying to figure it out, and you're really looking in the right direction, everything's going to be all right.

We're all flawed human beings trying to be a better person on a daily basis and I didn't figure that out for a long, long time.

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood. And I've discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.

I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. What a delightful summer sound it is! How they come pouring out of the hive, twenty or thirty thousand bees, each striving to get out first!

Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be....but I'll be good.

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'

I'll kind of tend to beat myself up because I just want it to sound better than better.

we are—all of us—just imperfect people on a flawed planet who are trying to hold on to what is good and lovely and right.

I wasn't nearly as good as he was, I knew, but I could at least try to stay in the game.

When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.

People come to L.A. because they're chasing that dream of a better life. That's why I came here, because I thought it would be a place where I would find other people like me; people who wanted to write, people who had a dream of being something else. And that proved to be true.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

Love with pride is like chasing the pavement. There'll be a long chasing until it ends.

When you come up a bit short on excellence, you still win. When you strive for perfect, you're just never quite good enough.

What we strive for, ultimately, is love. You won't find real love because you're beautiful on the outside. It is drawn to inner beauty. Spend your energy crafting that, and you will know true love.

For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.