Quotes About Striving

Often, they said, it is the most talented engineers who have the hardest time learning when to stop striving for perfection. West

And so he walked on from day to day studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god.

He would find consolation in the reminder that all flesh was as grass, that in the end all our striving came to nothing, but that in that brief aching and vivid time that we call life, one must do all that was possible to protect, conserve, and nurture this phenomenon of life.

It wasn't enough but it was a start. It might keep him going...

Strivers are driven to test themselves over and over again. They don't rest on their accomplishments. Success urges them to reach higher, take bigger risks. If they fail, they pull themselves back up. Ambition is the essence of human evolution. Strivers adapt to their changing environment.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

Nada mais via que uma imensa dificuldade de ser.

That's one of my major themes in Firefly Lane—that we need to accept that we are good enough, that all we can do is our best.

Simple love's hard to come by/ I'm just living my life, and I'm trying to be a lady." —CHRISETTE MICHELE

opportunity—trying

Drop Your still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease: Take from our souls the strain and stress; And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Your peace. Breathe through the pulses of desire Your coolness and Your balm; Let sense be mum, its beats expire: Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire, O still small voice of calm!

In the world there are only two ways of raising one's self, either by one's own industry or by the weakness of others.

Unlike those many dead because of him, he had life, and life wasn't a default state—I am not dead, hence I must be alive—but a medium. For action, for effort. As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could in its name, even if it was not, was never, enough.

How often I spoilt things when I was trying so hard to do well.

The point is the effort

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.

The feeling of unworthiness or that something is missing in our life is often at the root of excessive busy-ness and striving and therefore at the root of stress. By being very busy or working very hard, we often try to compensate for such feelings of lack. Alternately, we might seek love and approval from others or compulsively try to fix and improve ourselves.

The universal story is: "I'm not good enough. Life isn't good enough!" Built into everyone's story is an I that needs to strive to be good enough and to make life turn out right. When the me does succeed at something, that feeling of finally being good enough is all too soon replaced by the old drumbeat: "I'm still not good enough! Life still isn't good enough!

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

?i eu sunt om, ?i eu vreau s? fiu mare ?i fericit.

Whosoever puts himself in constant striving, him we can redeem.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

"We want in so many different ways to be," he began again. "This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man he will never on his heap of mud keep still. He want to be so, and again he want to be so…" He moved his hand up, then down… "He wants to be a saint, and he wants to be a devil..."

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.