Quotes About Striving

I guess my mantra is you have to work really hard if you want something. You have to be committed to hard work and persistence even when it gets tough.

Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit's work to discourage us.

If you have a perfectionist streak - and who doesn't? - running can kill the perfectionist inside you.

I have a competitive streak.

I work with one of the best striking coaches in the world, Henri Hooft.

We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.

I was drawn to bakery and pastry. It's the same discipline you employ in dance - you take the instruction, and you keep on practicing, seeking perfection. You never achieve it, but you strive.

It's hard to be perfect, but that's something we try to strive for.

It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

Sometimes it's not always perfect, and there are mistakes, and you pick yourself up and move on. I've learned you can't be a perfectionist. I still strive to do my best in every area, but I've learned to let go.

I'm not perfect, but I strive for it.

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.

Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.

As a league player, for myself, you strive to win a comp. I'm lucky enough to have achieved that... but most sportspeople would love to go to the Olympics, and I haven't achieved that.

I guess you cannot prepare yourself enough for stardom, even though you strive for it all your life.

I don't think there's any such thing as perfection. But I'm a perfectionist. I don't believe in the idea of perfection, but I will strive to achieve it.

I came to understand and observe that we're all going to face obstacles. We're going to have challenges. We're going to fail. We're going to have success. But all of it is going to ultimately be character-building. And it's not going to deter us from wanting to achieve, to strive, and be successful.

I want people to feel inspired. I want people to feel good. I want people to feel something. I want people to strive for what they want in their life, and I want them to heal from anything that's hurting them.

When you become a professional footballer, there's no written contract that says you have to strive to play first-team football.