Quotes About Striving

Maybe it's that the world is an imperfect place, but if you spend all your time looking for something better you'll only end up somewhere even worse.

He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore.

A budget should be judged by whether it creates a foundation for the success of American working families striving to buy a house, or to send their kids to college, or to save a little for retirement and, if they're lucky, a vacation.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Arrogance sort of destroys that nervousness because you're having a bunch of people flatter you and tell you you're awesome, and it keeps you from striving as hard for the kind of validation you seek from a good show.

I shall try. At best, I am human. No less subject than any to mortal limits and fallible resource.

But hope always kindles through striving.

We try to make art perfect because we never manage it in real life

Intentamos que el arte sea perfecto porque en la vida real jamás lo logramos

There is something occulted inside us: our death. But something else is hidden there, lying in wait for us within each of our cells: the forgetting of death. In our cells our immortality lies in wait for us. It's common to speak of the struggle of life against death, but there is an inverse peril. And we must struggle against the possibility that we will not die. (p. 5)

Unlike him she knew this and sat many hours with her head in her hands, I thought then, to make the words fall out. But the words did not fall out and her feelings hung inside her, preserved.

what summits would I not reach if my own life made the subject of the melody.

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

If you're a perfectionist and you know you're about to do something at which you cannot be perfect, then that is daunting because you know what your heart is like and the way you approach your work.

You may not do well, necessarily, up front, and in order to be the best, you've got to work hard.

Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

The greater the value of the object desired, the greater the effort required in its attainment.

She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

In the democratic way of life it is not the best things in life are free, but rather the best things in life are worth working for!

Competition is healthy. It makes you work harder and strive for more and try to find that extra one or two percent in your game that you could possibly improve.

That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best.

I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.

I feel I always have to work harder, I have to impress all the time. Impress whom? With what? People say, "Just be yourself." Well, my anxiety is that people aren't going to want that.