Quotes About Striving

Each of us can only do the best we can for as many as we can and that will never be good enough for those of us who care!

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And unless you show that you are as good at everything as they are, you find that you spend virtually all your time running behind them screaming like a banshee, 'Me too, me too!

The price of life is effort; the acme of effort is accomplishment; the reward of accomplishment is joy.

Fair riches come to him who strives in ways of golden gain. And fame enshrines his name who works with genius-glowing brain; But greater glory waits for him who, in the bloodless strife 'Gainst self and wrong, adopts, in love, the sacrificial life;

people are very, very busy walking around you, paying with the currency of unhappiness now in order to reach their glorious futures someday…maybe.

The impossible is the least that one can demand.

It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.

Now, as then, we find ourselves bound, first without, then within, by the nature of our categorization. And escape is not effected through a bitter railing against this trap; it is as though this very striving were the only motion needed to spring the trap upon us. We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

We ask for progress, not perfection. Just do your best.

Fighting against undefeated IBF 154-pound champion Marie-Eve Dicaire continues my quest to fight the very best in women's boxing.

Some people operate in complete fear that they're gonna lose their stuff and their money. That sounds like hell to me. And then I guess some people operate with hands open, and maybe empty, but at least striving for a deeper understanding of what it means to care.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

I definitely have had my down times and also have had my times of being very, very unemployed.

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked.

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection.

At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.

No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.

It's what makes everybody better, that pressure for a spot and competing.

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.

I'm not sure about doing 10 takes of running up a flight of stairs, whether I'm really up to that... but I'll definitely have a go!

Even I don't always come up to my own standards of perfection.

I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.