Quotes About Striving

People need self-respect, that self respect must be earned – it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned – and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

Most readily measure the inches and feet of life's ups and downs, but it is only the foot forward that really counts.

How did I get here? I'm not rich. Not a mutant. Not a genius. Not a natural. I just try harder. I always have.

When I was a kid, I did everything I could to get super-powers. Why? I wanted to be a hero. I wanted to be Captain America. Sometimes I fall short.

Over and over again, we lift God out of our reach. Over and over, push Him beyond our grasp, yet still we stretch out our fingers and seek to touch Him. But find nothing.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is in the doing, not the getting—in the trying, not the triumph. WYNN DAVIS

Bo? aray??lar insan ruhunu y?prat?r. ?nsanlar? memnun etmek ve onlar?n sevgi, takdir ve onaylar?n? almak için u?ra?an ki?i kendini yorar.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

The natural striving for knowledge, as Aristotle formulates it at the beginning of the Metaphysics moves in a sphere of universal theoretical brightness and visibility and theoria represents the comprehension (via imaginative reenact- ment) of an absolutely divine act.

I don't want to pretend. I want to achieve, really achieve. Or I will take my disappointments like anyone else.

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive.

I am here, trying. I am a person who tries. I do what I fucking can. It's okay to just try.

My disappointment had a clear source. I would try to make things perfect and I would fail, over and over again. I couldn't just love someone and be loved back. That was too easy. That didn't feel right. I was more familiar with dissatisfaction. I was more at home with longing. As I moved me things into that dusty, tiny, haunted house, I looked around and thought, "This will never be enough." It was exactly what I wanted.

It's really the striving-the person becomes aware that whatever he is striving for becomes the cost.

And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day. Because they have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies." ? Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

I feel strongly that in the continual striving for the actualization of every living thing lies our only hope. This is the unique challenge of Personhood and the sole purpose of this book.

If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain them. We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

No cold prudence for me. I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it. The

I can't squeeze to keep the breezers in.

I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it's tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens.

You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.