Quotes About Striving

I keep striving to be perfect, it keeps you pushing and pushing and pushing.

I tend to get caught up in striving for perfection and not so much the accepting excellence part.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Struggling at anything that you want to be doing is hard.

But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.

Hopefully, I'll get a top-10 or top-five opponent.

In order to be the man, you have to beat the man.

I do a little of several things like writing, teaching and political organizing, but none of them as well as I would like.

We are all trying to achieve our dreams.

I'm out here to beat everybody - that's what I'm tying to do.

When I got out of college, I booked a movie called 'Go for It!' with Lionsgate, came out here, and I've been acting ever since - or trying, constantly trying.

I think competing gets overlooked sometimes. The competitiveness that you bring to a game and an at-bat, it can go a long way. It really can.

Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us.

Master-meaning! Concealed revealment! I spent my twenties wanting to be Lévi-Strauss – which is ironic, since he spent most of his life wanting to be somebody or something else: a philosopher, say, or novelist, or poet.

The only true failure is the failure of not trying.

Keep in mind that if God waited until we were perfect before He allowed us to be in His service, none of us could ever serve. We shouldn't use this truth as a cop-out to not change out improve, but to encourage us to keep striving when we're tempted to quit, remembering we've all got room to grow.

Alexander was in the grip of a passion for perfection. He was not aware of how closely, how perilously, perfectionism and fanaticism are related.

Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life? People who are conventionally clever get jobs on their qualifications (the past), not on their desire to succeed (the future). Very simply, they get overtaken by those who continually strive to be better than they are.

We have become a society that strives for the minimum standard, and this is how we live our lives. Failure to put in the desired time and effort will reward you with only middle-of-the-road performance.

This is why alchemy exists, the boy said. So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

When people work beyond their destiny, all they do fails.

Trying to get lasting security teaches us a lot, because if we never try to do it, we never notice that it can't be done. Turning our minds toward the dharma speeds up the process of discovery. At every turn we realize once again that it's completely hopeless—we can't get any ground under our feet. The difference between theism

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.