Top 100 Striving Life Quotes
#1. The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
John W. Gardner
#3. Well, you get my point: You've go one life with zero guarantees, so you do your best, adapt if possible, and keep on breathing. I recommend striving for happiness, but many opt for duty and responsibility. Mileage varies.
Beth Harbison
#4. Striving to convey to this beloved audience of one what was going on around me during those five years, I learned the power of language to map a life, to overcome a distance, to focus attention on what matters most.
Scott Russell Sanders
#5. In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia ... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding.
Olympia Brown
#6. The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein
#7. The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.
Alfred Adler
#8. 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
#9. Good men are a bit like border collies: we're happiest when we're useful. That's why the life of a good man involves constant striving for direction and meaning.
Shawn T. Smith
#10. It's better to live an ordinary life. If you go on striving for this and that, you'll end up paying with your life.
Yu Hua
#11. Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
#12. 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 Huffington
#13. We must never forget that while striving to leave a better planet to our kids, it is just as important that we strive to leave better kids to our planet.
Steve Maraboli
#14. Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#15. There are flowers growing, and saplings are striving to push up past the ashes. There is life amid death. Hope in the midst of adversity.
Tracie Peterson
#16. In 1982, I wrote in my diary that life is motion, not joy. If the way you measure success in life is by how much joy it brings you, you're measuring inaccurately. Life is also sadness, defeat, striving. It is many things.
Mario Cuomo
#17. Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.
Earl G. Graves, Sr.
#18. I'm certainly not saying that my life is what success is all about. To me, success is the ongoing process of striving to become more.
Tony Robbins
#19. Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving and toiling everywhere and always for that ultimate victory.
G. Campbell Morgan
#20. America is nation of people striving to make life better for themselves and for their families.
Kevin McCarthy
#22. I don't want a "holy" life of prayer and contemplation. I want a life of strife, lust, striving, seeking, struggling, and debauchery.
Damien Echols
#23. Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.
Albert Einstein
#24. So our definition of manliness, like that of the ancients, is simple: striving for virtue, honor, and excellence in all areas of your life, fulfilling your potential as a man, and being the absolute best brother, friend, husband, father and citizen you can be.
Brett McKay
#25. To praise the contemplative life is not to reject every other form of life, but to seek a solid foundation for every other human striving. Without
Thomas Merton
#26. In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
William Allen White
#27. Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .
Aristotle.
#28. When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
Suze Orman
#29. If you are striving to have a stable success and riches in joy, you need to be truly dedicated to God
Sunday Adelaja
#30. When you're a young actor, and you're really fighting to have your place in the world - for me, anyway - it took a mental focus and energy and striving. It took a long time. And it was my whole life.
Mark Ruffalo
#31. One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There's always something just ahead.
Irene Hunt
#32. How far you go in life depends on
your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving and
tolerant of the weak and strong.
Because someday in your life
you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
#33. Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#34. We are growing day by day as we are continuously striving for excellence in life.
Euginia Herlihy
#35. 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
#36. Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.
Albert Einstein
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Even if we've never been inside a synagogue or a mosque or a church - even if we have, and vowed never to go back - deep down in our striving hearts, beneath all the ambition and the fear, we suspect that we were made for a different sort of life.
Heather Choate Davis
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.
Ernest Becker
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift.
Saul Bellow
#46. Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.
Shannon L. Alder
#47. Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
Anton Chekhov
#48. America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
Barack Obama
#49. Life is already together, and what you have to experience is experiencing it being together. The striving to put it together is a denial of the truth that it is actually already together and further striving keeps you from getting it together.
Werner Erhard
#50. Find what you're good at. whatever it is, and become excellent at it. Excellence isn't magic - it's habit, the by product of doing something over and over and striving to be the best at it. Simply figure out what your passion is, and resolve to make excellence your habit.
Lauren Rowe
#51. At the end of the day, we're all striving to be touched, somehow.
Crystal Woods
#52. When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on 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 H. Schuller
#53. Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.
Ernie J Zelinski
#54. She'd always had a heavy hand in his life, it was true, striving not to control it but to improve it somehow. She had always considered this her responsibility to him. She had not known how to be a sister any other way.
Anonymous
#55. Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.
Brene Brown
#56. The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life
William Golding
#57. Men, I think, are not capable of doing nothing, of saying nothing, of not reacting to injustice, of not protesting against oppression, of not striving for the good of society and the good life in the ways they see it.
Nelson Mandela
#58. He'd spent his life travelling the path of least resistance, taking the easiest of routes, searching for the quickest of solutions, and with Kate, he'd discovered more satisfaction was found in fighting for something, in striving to meet her expectations.
Lorraine Heath
#59. Interest and enthusiasm are the wellspring of continually evolving community life: they create bonds which unite us whether we are young or old, nearby or far from each other; they allow human warmth and love to be the formative forces in personal and community life and striving.
Henning Hansmann
#60. Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles
Lucretia Mott
#61. The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training.
Ortega Y Gasset, Jose
#62. Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.
Lloyd Shearer
#63. The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
Barbra Streisand
#64. Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Aristotle.
#65. We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#66. So, maybe we need to let go of solutions for a while and look instead at how we're trying to reach them. If simply striving for a happier life were the answer, wouldn't it have worked by now?
Ed Halliwell
#67. The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.
Marc Veasey
#68. There is only one person I wake up every morning striving to be better than, and that is myself.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
#69. Do not base your life on the likings and dislikings or whims of others. What you are in life - whether you enjoy or suffer - it is your own responsibility. Be regular in your meditation and do not postpone for a later date your striving for God consciousness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#70. You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.
Roger Kahn
#71. I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.
Ariel Rechtshaid
#72. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
Theodore Roosevelt
#73. He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.
Jack London
#74. The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.
Daisaku Ikeda
#75. Striving to live the ordinary life in a non-ordinary way.
Book Of Runes
#76. My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so badly with that World Cup, but if I don't, then I'll retire knowing that I've done everything I could to get it.
Hope Solo
#77. I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
Madeleine K. Albright
#78. 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
#79. Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.
Orison Swett Marden
#80. Life presents itself first and foremost as a task. We take no pleasure in it except when we are striving after something.
Tim Parks
#81. Acceptance and its counterpart, understanding, are crucial to achieving relationship harmony. It is sacred love, the highest form of love, and like most things worth striving for in life, it requires patience, commitment, personal responsibility, and practice.
Arielle Ford
#82. Every goal that you will ever pursue will require a plan of action. Whether you are pursuing your life's destiny or striving to obtain a particular goal, you must be able to see things as you desire them to be.
T.D. Jakes
#83. The life of hero is the tale of a person overcoming personal hardship and obstacles while striving to achieve an exultant victory that voices repressed citizens' ecstatic thoughts and dreams.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#84. If I want my life to matter, these eyes can't see who I really am.
Who I'm striving hard not to be.
The homeless girl hiding in front of them.
Brenda Rufener
#85. The greatest act of personal courage is conscientiously to mature, by resolutely striving to achieve self-actualization and self-realization. A person who knows their true self and lives their life in an authentic manner while pursuing their honest passions will lose his misery.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#86. We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn't cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a distinctly 'unnatural' way, so that the mind clings less and lets go more.
Jay Michaelson
#87. Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.
Benmont Tench
#88. If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain them. We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live
Leo Tolstoy
#89. A golfer has to learn to enjoy the process of striving to improve. That process, not the end result, enriches life.
Bob Rotella
#90. If you think peaceful thoughts, you'll feel peaceful emotions, and that's what you'll bring to every life situation. If you're attached to being right or absolutely need something in order to be at peace or successful, you'll live a life of striving yet never arriving.
Wayne Dyer
#91. The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
Albert Einstein
#92. Grind until you get it no matter what the haters say and never look back, keep striving cause its your life.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#93. Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
Walter Kirn
#94. If all of us carried a positive attitude, and we focused our efforts on striving for something positive in our own lives and in life all around us, everything would take a turn for the better. Yes, I really do believe that a positive mindset can change the world. Don't you?
Logan Seelye
#95. People are successful because they think and act like successful people.
Roy Bennett
#97. I don't need to go to heaven or hell. I have been both places and always wanted more. I will settle for somewhere in between, so eternity never becomes dull and every miracle is something I never take for granted.
Shannon L. Alder
#98. My goal was to become the best dancer in the world and, because I started late, I always had this feeling I was playing catch-up, so I've been a bit of a maniac most of my life, sort of striving.
Anton Du Beke
#99. Struggling isn't a sign of failure but of strength. Keep pushing, keep striving...your best is yet to come!
Kemi Sogunle
#100. It is foolish to be in thrall to fame and fortune, engaged in painful striving all your life with never a moment of peace and tranquillity.
Yoshida Kenko
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