Quotes About Striving

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work.

You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.

I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't have it in me to write but which I hope I can go on trying for.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.

I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year

...A man is not required to run faster than he is able but it is a requirement to run.

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

If we could learn to trust and rest and be instead of always striving to do, we would find ourselves face to face with some of life's most perplexing paradoxes. First, that transformation comes only when we stop trying to transform ourselves. Second, that love can flow out of us only after we've allowed it to flow freely into us. And third, that you can't catch God by chasing him; you catch him only by accepting his pursuit of you.

Life presents itself first and foremost as a task. We take no pleasure in it except when we are striving after something.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. —VIKTOR E. FRANKL, Holocaust survivor; author of Man's Search for Meaning

There is just less competition for bigger goals.

Final truth in this world is unattainable, but its pursuit leads the individual away from unfreedom.

Universality is the nonbelonging that becomes evident when a structure runs up against an external barrier as it strives to reproduce itself.

A central idea in Adlerian psychology is that individuals are always striving toward a goal. Whereas Freud saw us as driven by what was in our past, Adler had a teleological view—that we are driven by our goals, whether they are conscious or not. The

All areas of a person's life, whether it is work, marriage, or raising children, require outward effort, and it is the effort itself that brings about happiness.

THERE'S LEADERSHIP, and then there's "leadership." The first conveys vision, engenders confidence, and encourages striving toward common goals. The other doesn't.

I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.

If it doesn't mean more to a normal human being like Dan Evans, who could change his life and career by winning not a gold but a bronze medal for Great Britain, if he doesn't want to take that chance, I would say something is wrong with the Olympics in what it's worth in tennis.

I really do feel like an unremarkable person trying really hard, openly, to do something interesting and to make something of value and pleasure.

To wish for what you want is not enough; With ardent longing you must strive for it.