Quotes About Striving

Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of me, someone smarter and more ambitious than me, who'd be sure to carry me along into the version of adulthood I thought I should be striving for?

Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows...it knows we can never reach it.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Both rocketry and magic were rebellions against the very limits of human existence; in striving for one challenge he could not help but strive for the other.

Me, I only try. I'm not one like Moses, or Solon—or, or—Lycurgus.

the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failedI well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

There is a spirit out there that lifts the heart and renews one's determination to be better, to try harder, to strive to be more faithful. That is the legacy those wonderful Saints have handed to us.

He was dying all his life.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.

The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."

Perfectionism is slow death.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving ... if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre.

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

Achievement: The death of an endeavor, and the birth of disgust.

How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.

Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try, try again If at first you don't succeed, Try, try, try again.

Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.

život ide daleko, dalje nego što mi možemo da ga pratimo, a ja se samo trudim da objasnim pojedine pojave, kad ve? ne mogu sve da razumijem.

I was also afraid that I wouldn't be good enough to compete in that arena.