Quotes About Striving

Never give up, because at the end of it all we all trying to win.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.

It would be nice to be highest scorer in the Championship.

It can be a bit sententious in the Nigerian household, to the point where you feel like with any wrong step you've set yourself back so far. It's like everything has to be done right.

No doubt about it, the higher you achieve, the higher you reach.

If you're not trying to win, there's no point in playing.

Sometimes he wondered if man's instincts had changed in that time and always concluded that they hadn't. At least in the basic, most primal ways. As far as he could tell, man had always been aggressive, always striving to dominate, trying to control the world and everything in it.

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…

One's salvation could only be brought about through his own efforts.

I'm a mild disappointment to them, which is worse somehow than being a serious disappointment. So I'm working hard not to be any kind of disappointment to myself." She

considerable effort and a great deal of

That, more than any person or event, informed the experience of nineties life: an adversarial relationship with the unseemliness of trying too hard.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged...What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. . . he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, and for one perfect minute Tyler sat in the palm of a perfection he'd created himself. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.

You wake up, and you're nowhere. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. You wake up, and that's enough.

If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.

Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flatlined.

Un minuto era suficiente, dijo Tyler; hay que trabajar duro para lograrlo, pero por un minuto de perfección valía la pena el esfuerzo. Lo máximo que podías esperar de la perfección era un instante.

May I never be complete. May I never be perfect. May I never be content.

You're going up and up and up and not getting anywhere. It's the illusion of progress. What you want to think is your salvation. What people forget is a

Strivers grasped for something better-and crooks schemes about how to manipulate the present system. The world as it might be versus the world as it was. But perhaps Carney was being too stark. Plenty of crooks were strivers, and plenty of strivers bent the law.

Cora didn't know what optimistic meant. She asked the other girls that night if they were familiar with the word. None of them had heard it before. She decided that it meant trying.