Quotes About Striving

It is in the gap between your imperfections, honestly faced, and your desire for something beyond perfection that you can achieve genius.

the best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile

nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.

We find true refuge whenever we recognize the silent space of awareness behind all our busy doing and striving. We find refuge whenever our hearts open with tenderness and love. We find refuge whenever we connect with the innate clarity and intelligence of our true nature.

views on Hector v. Achilles and cannot agree. Hector is what man can strive to become; Achilles

Los hijos deben ser advertidos de la condición de sus semejantes, si no se quiere que mueran en cuerpo o en alma. Los judíos tienen razón cuando declaran que el hombre nace ya pervertido. Sabiendo esto, los niños podrán decirse a sí mismos: "Con la ayuda de Dios trataré de ser mejor que mis hermanos y me esforzaré en alcanzar la virtud. Es mi deber tratar de superar mi naturaleza humana".

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again... who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. Teddy Roosevelt

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

But in the bleak light of full adulthood, which is to one's early twenties as Sunday morning is to Saturday night, he can clearly see what it really amounts to: he's broke and unemployed.

I was still getting 93's, but what the hell, someone had to get them.

The ideal I've been striving for is not the way people have relationships in the real world.

Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it; those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow [...] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

It's just like, damn - I'm competing with myself.

And one of the biggest things I still can't get over is that even when I'm doing something right, I still feel like I'm doing something wrong. I always have that feeling that it's not good enough. That I'm not good enough.

She could see into his soul, the barely leashed beast always striving for dominance, never quite conquered. She could see his fear of losing her, of being forever vampire, loathed and hunted by his own kind. And she could see his terrible need to protect her, keep her safe, and his need to please her. He wanted to earn her respect and love, be worthy of it.

That like I best that flies beyond my reach. Set me to scale the high pyramids And thereon set the diadem of France; I'll either rend it with my nails to nought, Or mount the top with my aspiring wings, Although my downfall be the deepest hell.

The reward may be uncertain, but our doom is inevitable unless we try.