Quotes of Striving - somelinesforyou

“ Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. ”

- Harriet Braiker

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

- Buddha

“ The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. ”

- Denis Waitley

“ Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life. ”

- Sean O’Casey

“ We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. ”

- Ovid

“ The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's will. ”

- David Allman

“ Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. ”

- David Bly

“ Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve. ”

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

“ Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after life. ”

- Arianna Stassinopoulos

“ The world we are striving for must be a civilized one in which all nations enjoy the same benefits of the scientific and technological revolution. ”

- Tran Duc Luong

“ When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine, with God's help. ”

- Robert Schuller

“ Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world. ”

- Islom Karimov

“ And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these; and he is dead, who will not fight; and who dies fighting has increase. ”

- Julian Grenfell

“ Many people realize their hearts' desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life. ”

- Unknown

“ Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. ”

- George Eliot

“ Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. ”

- Pat Riley

“ Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence — doing your best. ”

- Sir Lawrence Olivier

“ Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows. ”

- Frances Rodman

“ Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize. ”

- Owen Meredith

“ As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Ambition means longing and striving to attain some purpose. Therefore, there are as many brands of ambition as there are human aspirations. ”

- B.C. Forbes

“ A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Faith is the sturdiest, the most manly of the virtues. It lies behind our pluckiest… strivings. It is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of the sunshine. ”

- Ruth Benedict

“ Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself. ”

- Thomas a Kempis

“ Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty, it is it's own reward. Everything else is in God's hands. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi
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