Top 100 Quotes About Striving
#1. We are striving to change things, lass. But changes don't occur overnight." - Mr. Wellesley
Aya Ling
#2. Only weariness remained. It was a special kind of weariness that descended rarely, according to internal chemical regimens he did not understand. It made striving difficult, but also falsehood.
Boris Fishman
#3. I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.
Charles Handy
#4. I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free.
John Taylor Gatto
#5. Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening ...
Lisa Kleypas
#6. To make any relationship work we need patience, ceaseless striving to communicate more clearly with one another, and tolerance of imperfections.
Greg Bogart
#7. Everyone is striving to unite particulars and find at least some general sense in the general senselessness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#8. Only if government fulfilled its responsibility by fostering a robust economy was it ressonable to hold individuals responsible for working hard and striving to do their best.
Pursuing the American Dream, 8, 246
Calvin C. Jillson
#9. For it is by free grace (God's unmerited favor) that you are saved ([6]delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God;
Anonymous
#10. Apple embodies a lot of what have been defined as feminine traits: an emphasis on intuitive design, intellect, a strong sense of creativity, and that striving to always make the greatest version of something.
Louis C.K.
#11. It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.
Emily Blunt
#12. We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for no matter how family and friends may adore us, they can never satisfy our visceral need to love and honor ourselves.
Susan L. Taylor
#13. Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve ... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.
Eric Maisel
#14. What we were striving for was a kind of modified form of communism.
Harold L. Ickes
#15. The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.
Martha Beck
#16. Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio ... each at some period of its life, during some season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life and to suffer great destruction ... The vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.
Charles Darwin
#17. We loved - and were fated to sorrow. But from our striving and from our sorrow we fashioned The Oldest Story in the World.
Ross Lockridge Jr.
#18. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut
#19. Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.
Tupac Shakur
#20. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#21. My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and direction, which is a helluva lot better than chasing one's tail.
Catherine Stock
#22. Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#23. Faith isn't knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.
Brandon Mull
#24. Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.
Anton Corbijn
#25. In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
William Allen White
#26. Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.
Bill Johnson
#27. We can build influence by self promotion, but God will only promote those who do not promote themselves. That which is built on self-promotion will have to be maintained by human striving. Those who allow God to build the house have taken a yoke that is easy and a burden that is light.
Rick Joyner
#28. Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.
Gelsey Kirkland
#29. All fruit grows through abiding, not striving.
Bill Johnson
#31. All this time I had thought my son was striving to be my mirror opposite, but he wasn't - he had become my polar opposite instead, and that had sent him careering away.
Steve Toltz
#32. One thing you must never lose is courage. If you believe in the goal you are striving for, you will be courageous. There are many difficult times ahead, but you must keep your sense of humor, work through the tough situations, and enjoy yourself!
Shigesato Itoi
#33. I wake up starving for success, and no matter how much I accomplish I go to sleep striving for improvement; I refuse to let my enemies outwork me.
Noel DeJesus
#34. When I was growing up in Montana I had two dreams: I wanted to be a paleontologist and I wanted to have a pet dinosaur and so that's what I've been striving for all of my life.
Jack Horner
#35. When a man or woman is born again by the Spirit of God they will give evidence of it in part by striving to live a holy life.
Alistair Begg
#36. Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
James S. Coleman
#37. No matter what I choose to become, I believe I can change the world. And as I am striving to change the world, I will be happy.
Sam Berns
#38. Striving to 'be the best' is overrated & not smart. Grow to become only 1% better than your top competitor in your chosen field(s) of expertise.
Gary Patton
#39. Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.
Ernest Becker
#40. What could be more natural for me than to look upon the Abbot as representing the highest human ideal worth striving for, just as the position of the humble village priest had appeared to my father in his own boyhood days?
Adolf Hitler
#41. I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.
Fred Frith
#42. So, you've failed many times at many things. That's okay! Learn, grow, and move forward. With the right attitude and mindset, you can learn a lot from failure. Pay attention and keep on striving! You've got this!
Stephanie Lahart
#43. Turns out, we don't want to be content. We keep buying more stuff and doing more things. The striving is endless. The pile of gadgets grows, and the desire for bigger houses, nicer cars, and a cooler wardrobe is insatiable.
Darrin Patrick
#44. Ask yourself, 'what's more important - being real and being myself, or becoming successful? And ask the question knowing that you never actually have to choose between being real and being successful. You simply have to choose between being realand striving to be successful. Get the difference?
Thomas Leonard
#45. The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.
Baldur Von Schirach
#46. The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us.
Mario Cuomo
#47. By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.
Aberjhani
#48. His indirect way of approaching a character or an action, striving to realize it by surrounding rather than invading it, is ideally suited to the indefinite and suggestive presentation of a ghost story.
(introduction to "Sir Edmund Orme" by Henry James)
Herbert A. Wise
#49. It's about being the very best you can be. Nothing else matters as long as you're working and striving to be your best. Always compete. It's truly that simple. Find the way to do your best. Compete in everything you do.
Pete Carroll
#50. Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#51. Certainty closes many doors," he replied. "It leads to dogmatism. Souls accept what they know and stop striving upwards.
Jo Walton
#52. We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.
Ovid
#53. Joy is an important element of happiness. It is sometimes the difference between striving and thriving. One must nurture the joy in one's life so that it reaches full bloom.
Maya Angelou
#54. I'm always striving to do more. Whatever I accomplish, it's not enough. I don't get satisfied.
Brian Dawkins
#56. Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#57. After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
Barack Obama
#58. Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.
Mitt Romney
#59. You might have been enough the man you are, with striving less to be so
William Shakespeare
#60. All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.
Meher Baba
#61. That home is most beautiful in which you find each person striving to serve the other.
David O. McKay
#62. Young Bran, striving to please and yearning for the approving touch of a father's hand, only ever saw that hand raised in anger. Thus, he learned at an early age that since he could never please his father, he might as well please himself.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#63. Recovery on the med model requires you to be obedient, like a child," she explains. "You are obedient to your doctors, you are compliant with your therapist, and you take your meds. There's no striving toward greater intellectual concerns. (123)
Robert Whitaker
#64. I want to create a space that moves people. It doesn't matter if it is a house, or a museum, or whatever. So, it is somebody sitting on that lawn, just going around and around and feeling really happy. That is something that I'm striving for.
Tadao Ando
#65. In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.
Goldwin Smith
#66. In a world of pushing, shoving, striving to get ahead at all costs people; to those who knew him well, John Mann was a breath of fresh air.
Matt Micros
#67. When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift.
Saul Bellow
#68. Be in this moment, and free yourself of striving for something more or someone else.
Wayne Dyer
#69. Inequality is everywhere at the bottom of faction, for in general faction arises from men's striving for what is equal.
Aristotle.
#70. I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn't have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough.
Portia De Rossi
#71. We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
Alfred North Whitehead
#72. True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#73. What makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection.
BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON
Chapter 27 Page 214
Dean Koontz
#74. "Foreboding" and "ominous" is what you're striving to achieve-not mention.
Josip Novakovich
#75. For a really relaxing time, you want to go to a place where the work ethic hasn't taken hold, where the culture hasn't been taken over by the western values of constant striving.
Tom Hodgkinson
#76. Striving for perfection is neurotic; striving for excellence is progress. Excellence is continuous improvement. There is nothing that cannot be done better or improved the next time.
Shiv Khera
#77. There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.
Vince Lombardi
#78. Meditation is like farming ... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#79. Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving. Describing
Paul Kalanithi
#80. It's important to keep up with technology, to constantly move with it. Striving to do so keeps me alert and creates a sense of fluidity but at the same time I like to distance myself from it. It's key for my process to try and remain outside the bubble.
Marc Forster
#81. For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
Thomas Carlyle
#82. What if becoming who and what we truly are happens not through striving and trying but by recognizing and receiving the people and places and practices that offer us the warmth of encouragement we need to unfold?
Oriah Dreamer
#83. Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake.
Nathalia Crane
#84. Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.
Rudolf Arnheim
#85. Trying to connect to the moment, that move, that breath - this is what I have been striving for; finding the oneness that can exist with all the things around and inside me.
Ron Kauk
#86. Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
Anton Chekhov
#87. Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.
Alva Myrdal
#88. One of the ability of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion
Sunday Adelaja
#89. If one comes across sometimes as being cold or brusque, it's simply because I'm striving for the best.
Anna Wintour
#90. Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.
Matthieu Ricard
#91. I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.
David E. Hoffman
#92. Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot
#93. But Ignatian spirituality is so capacious that even an introduction will touch upon a broad spectrum of topics: making good choices, finding meaningful work, being a good friend, living simply, wondering about suffering, deepening your prayer, striving to be a better person, and learning to love.
James Martin
#94. When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.
Noah Baumbach
#95. If you have God's presence, you have favor. One minute of God's presence can accomplish more than 20 years of your striving.
Heidi Baker
#96. You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.
Sarah Bernhardt
#97. Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.
John Wooden
#98. I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.
Cicely Tyson
#99. We must have the courage to be imperfect while striving for perfection.
Patricia T. Holland
#100. First, we must love the Lord with all our hearts, and we must love our children. Second, we must become a worthy example to them by continually seeking the Lord and striving to live the gospel. Third, we must teach our children the gospel and how to live its teachings.
Cheryl C. Lant
