Quotes About Striving

Life's greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!

Turkeys can run with eagles but cannot fly with them.

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.

The stars that have most glory have no rest.

I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.

As a Southerner and as a Mormon you approach life in this aspirational way: 'I will rise above my station.'

I had games where I had better statistics than others, but it wasn't because I wasn't playing hard.

You know, you just go out there, do your best. Sometimes it's good enough and sometimes it is, and sometimes it stays your only one and sometimes you win bunch others behind it.

The whole 'serious artist' thing is very damaging. The powers that be will steer you towards your own demise. One thing I've learned is that it's not very glamourous, and my problems are no different from anybody else's.

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Let not Ambition mock their useful toil

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

A landing place is a famous thing, but it is only enjoyable for a time by any mortal who deserves one at all.

When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about.

This is the tragedy: Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are—hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.

I'm trying to feel as good as I can.

Hell is not merely preferable to heaven-it's the only clear notion of an afterlife-of a goal worth striving toward-that human imagination has been able to devise.

On his last legs.

Toho, co snadno získáme, si pÃ…â"¢íliÅ¡ nevážíme. Pouze to, o co musíme usilovat, má skute?nou hodnotu.

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.

There are reasons that bands and musicians make demos and outtakes - because they are not good enough to make the record. A lot of people forget that.

To be fair to David Brent, he wants to be famous for doing something, for being a musician, but he's just not good enough.

We are, you know, not perfect. We live every day day-by-day, and we do the best to make our mom proud.