Quotes About Striving

What's the point of playing if winning isn't the goal?

Her body arched backward so forcefully that he almost lost her to the sea. He was so startled by her sudden

He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.

That's the type of person I am - I always want to do better.

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

In 'The Prophet,' Kahlil Gibran says something about perfection only being reached by stripping something to the point of nakedness. That's the ultimate project: the naked climber doing the greatest climb.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

Flawless' is an unattainable thing.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt...

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self.

Examine thus yourself from every side. Note harmful thoughts and every futile striving. Thus it is that heroes in the bodhisattva path Apply the remedies to keep a steady mind.

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

The universe itself can never be the limit of our satisfaction. That is why the miser gathers more and more money, that is why the robber robs, the sinner sins, that is why you are learning philosophy. All have one purpose. There is no other purpose in life, save to reach this freedom. Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection.

This world is like a dog's curly tail, and people have been striving to straighten it out for hundreds of years; but when they let it go, it has curled up again. How could it be otherwise? One must first know how to work without attachment, then one will not be a fanatic.

Hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more. . . . There is infinite life before the soul. Take your time and you will achieve your end.

To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.

This world is like a dog's curly tail, and people have been striving to straighten it out for hundreds of years; but when they let it go, it has curled up again.

No one or anything on this earth is perfect; Can only try to be perfect

After all, every man will climb if he can, and not many of them continue so kind to old acquaintances.