Quotes about Striving

Striving can be more important than arriving. Votes: 3

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. Votes: 3

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. Votes: 3

Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time. Votes: 3

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating. Votes: 3

Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life. Votes: 3

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death. Votes: 3

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. Votes: 3

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. Votes: 3

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever. Votes: 3

Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast. Votes: 3

Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate. Votes: 3

Striving for successful goals will have a tendency at times to be discouraging, thankless, and mentally draining. You are entitled to these feelings, however you are not entitled to give up. Votes: 3

Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in practically anything--is both neurotic and futile. Votes: 3

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best. Votes: 3

Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary. Votes: 3

Striving to be good is the ultimate struggle of every man. Being bad is easy, but being good requires sincere commitment, discipline and strength. We have to work hard every day just to remain good. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die- Perish;-and no one asks Who or what they have been. Votes: 3

Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is true of all of the rest of us. Striving after originality takes you far away from your true self, and makes your work mediocre. Votes: 3

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. Votes: 2

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. Votes: 2

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary. Votes: 2

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself. Votes: 2

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well. Votes: 2

There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing. Votes: 2

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize. Votes: 2

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. Votes: 2

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands. Votes: 2

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. Votes: 2

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. Votes: 2

I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform. Votes: 2

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. Votes: 2

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. Votes: 2

I love 'Braxton Family Values!' I love seeing a strong family unit striving for success while dealing with everyday struggles like everyone else. Whatever drama they find themselves in, they find a way to solve it and get back to the importance of family. A positive show for sure. Votes: 2

The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness. Votes: 2

Ruthless striving, overcomes everything. Votes: 0

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal. Votes: 0

All fruit grows through abiding, not striving. Votes: 0

Cease striving. Then there will be transformation. Votes: 0

Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction. Votes: 0

Man must strive, and striving he must err. Votes: 0

Without any doubt, I am striving for power. Votes: 0

Let us live in the harness, striving mightily. Votes: 0

People striving for approval from others become phony. Votes: 0

Winning isn't everything, but striving to win is. Votes: 0

You're always striving to play that perfect match. Votes: 0

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come. Votes: 0

Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness. Votes: 0

The striving from servant, the blessings from Almighty God. Votes: 0

It's always beautiful to see people striving to grow. Votes: 0

Happiness is when you are not striving for it! Votes: 0

I want players who are always striving to improve. Votes: 0

Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving. Votes: 0

There's nothing better than striving to be a better man. Votes: 0

"Foreboding" and "ominous" is what you're striving to achieve-not mention. Votes: 0

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection. Votes: 0

Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential. Votes: 0

It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving. Votes: 0

It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality. Votes: 0

There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving. Votes: 0

Aren't we all striving to be overpaid for what we do? Votes: 0

When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living. Votes: 0

When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift. Votes: 0

Never cease striving until you have seen God face to face, Votes: 0

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal . Votes: 0

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing. Votes: 0

Walking is a way of being somewhere, rather than striving to arrive. Votes: 0

Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. Votes: 0

That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race. Votes: 0

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors. Votes: 0

Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse. Votes: 0

Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth. Votes: 0

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. Votes: 0

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary. Votes: 0

A good person, striving dimly, Is well aware of the right path. Votes: 0

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence. Votes: 0

And as I'm striving to change the world, I will be happy. Votes: 0

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Votes: 0

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Votes: 0

Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. Votes: 0

Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening... Votes: 0

Keep striving for your goals, and remember that it's good to be ambitious. Votes: 0

Holiness through Christ's Spirit is the accountability every Christian should be striving towards. Votes: 0

We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable. Votes: 0

What we were striving for was a kind of modified form of communism. Votes: 0

I always think that you should be striving to write your best song. Votes: 0

Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender. Votes: 0

At the end of the day, we're all striving to be touched, somehow. Votes: 0

Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless. Votes: 0

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve. Votes: 0

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. Votes: 0

Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal. Votes: 0

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life. Votes: 0

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else. Votes: 0

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words. Votes: 0

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. Votes: 0

Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success. Votes: 0

The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential Votes: 0

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender. Votes: 0

And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. Votes: 0

Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve", Perfectionism is other-focused:"What will they think Votes: 0

There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence. Votes: 0

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best. Votes: 0

What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within. Votes: 0

Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving. Votes: 0

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it. Votes: 0

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well Votes: 0

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal. Votes: 0

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving. Votes: 0

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough. Votes: 0

The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan. Votes: 0

We were striving and struggling not just for a dream ticket, but a dream team. Votes: 0

I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker. Votes: 0

Be in this moment, and free yourself of striving for something more or someone else. Votes: 0

The worst thing that can happen to you is not striving for what you want. Votes: 0

Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting. Votes: 0

I'm always striving to do more. Whatever I accomplish, it's not enough. I don't get satisfied. Votes: 0

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves. Votes: 0

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All. Votes: 0

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive. Votes: 0

Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal. Votes: 0

That home is most beautiful in which you find each person striving to serve the other. Votes: 0

Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it's exhilarating if you sense you are growing. Votes: 0

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights. Votes: 0

Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under. Votes: 0

What if you have a genuine and captivating beauty that is marred only by your striving? Votes: 0

Perfect joy lies in selflessly striving for the best outcome, and then humbly accepting whatever God gives. Votes: 0

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it. Votes: 0

Building a business is like creating a picture & striving to be picture perfect in everything you do. Votes: 0

In all areas of your life, striving for proper posture can enhance your career, style and health. Votes: 0

The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness. Votes: 0

We all are striving for something every minute of the day, whether we realize it or not. Votes: 0

The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good on the inside. Votes: 0

What religion cannot do, GRACE does! Grace empowered obedience beats striving and performing any time!! Every time!! Votes: 0

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism Votes: 0

We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it. Votes: 0

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection. Votes: 0

Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it. Votes: 0

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins. Votes: 0

One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts. Votes: 0

I find nothing wrong with striving for the impossible. But I find alot wrong with giving up Votes: 0

We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race. Votes: 0

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward. Votes: 0

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential. Votes: 0

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving. Votes: 0

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important. Votes: 0

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts. Votes: 0

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles Votes: 0

Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them. Votes: 0

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. Votes: 0

I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new. Votes: 0

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit. Votes: 0

Make success happen by striving and working to be the best. Aim at excellence and hit the target. Votes: 0

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life. Votes: 0

You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter. Votes: 0

No matter what it is, if you aren't happy striving for it, you won't be happy achieving it. Votes: 0

What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands? Votes: 0

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize. Votes: 0

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity Votes: 0

But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One. Votes: 0

If one comes across sometimes as being cold or brusque its simply because I'm striving for the best. Votes: 0

Parents want their kids' approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents' approval. Votes: 0

To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good... Votes: 0

I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this. Votes: 0

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. Votes: 0

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control. Votes: 0

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. Votes: 0

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better. Votes: 0

I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers… Votes: 0

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art. Votes: 0

Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving. Votes: 0

When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes. Votes: 0

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people. Votes: 0

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work. Votes: 0

Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not. Votes: 0

Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price. Votes: 0

You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading. Votes: 0

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony. Votes: 0

In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss. Votes: 0

It's highly competitive to be here. People don't come to California to drop out anymore. It's a very striving place. Votes: 0

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness. Votes: 0

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. Votes: 0

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn. Votes: 0

Class is striving hard to be the best at what you do while taking the needs of others into consideration Votes: 0

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. Votes: 0

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so. Votes: 0

It's all about... getting back up and getting back to work and striving to be the best you can be. Votes: 0

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. Votes: 0

For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? Votes: 0

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it. Votes: 0

Grind until you get it no matter what the haters say and never look back, keep striving cause its your life. Votes: 0

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters. Votes: 0

The best parenting strives to educate children in how to live -- enthusiastically, compassionately, without greed, striving for a better world. Votes: 0

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves. Votes: 0

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life. Votes: 0

If you have God's presence, you have favor. One minute of God's presence can accomplish more than 20 years of your striving. Votes: 0

generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands. Votes: 0

To me, I think the core values that will help create the world that we're striving to live in are constant. Votes: 0

Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go. Votes: 0

Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are. Votes: 0

These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine. Votes: 0

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting. Votes: 0

Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will. Votes: 0

In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness. Votes: 0

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery. Votes: 0

Whatever we really are, that let us be, in all fearlessness. Whatever we are not, that let us cease striving to be. Votes: 0

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing. Votes: 0

We are creatures whose behavior cannot be simply explained as a striving for survival and happiness, for release of tension and contentment. Votes: 0

Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them. Votes: 0

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving and toiling everywhere and always for that ultimate victory. Votes: 0

There are people that will settle for nothing, people that will fight for something, and those that are fooled striving to have everything. Votes: 0

The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism. Votes: 0

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state. Votes: 0

The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value. Votes: 0

I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will push back, resistance, and misunderstanding. Votes: 0

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance. Votes: 0

I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it. Votes: 0

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it's a shield. Votes: 0

You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit. Votes: 0

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance. Votes: 0

Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of. Votes: 0

I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better. Votes: 0

There is a much bigger picture we are all striving for. To sweat the small stuff just stresses you out for no reason. Votes: 0

A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough. Votes: 0

Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake. Votes: 0

Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war. Votes: 0

I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have. Votes: 0

I'm hoping that my entrepreneurial side will have me at a place where I don't have to do anything. That's what I'm striving for. Votes: 0

We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others. Votes: 0

In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology. Votes: 0

This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough. Votes: 0

In some way I felt I was never good enough until I started fighting. I was always striving to show my worth and value. Votes: 0

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease. Votes: 0

Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease. Votes: 0

Select companions who are striving for enlightenment. They all have their imperfections, certainly, but at least their attention is moving in the right direction. Votes: 0

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time. Votes: 0

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive. Votes: 0

Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work? Votes: 0

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting. Votes: 0

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it. Votes: 0

Rather than strive to 'lose weight,' most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain muscle. Votes: 0

Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving. Votes: 0

What is important is not victory or the position of a victor, but rather the labor of striving towards God and devotion to Him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In striving to produce an attractive headline, the copywriter should not emphasize the "quick, easy way" to such an extent that the headline becomes unbelievable. Votes: 0

The best parenting strives to educate their children in HOW TO LIVE LIFE -- competitive, compassionate, void of greed, & striving to make a better world. Votes: 0

The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving. Votes: 0

Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are - hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family--in other words, from society, religion, and procreative Mother Nature. Votes: 0

What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolutions of conflict. Votes: 0

It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable manner. Votes: 0

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love all of my books. They were labors of love; I was striving to create something well done, and I do feel I succeeded. Votes: 0

I'm always striving to be a better man to God, a better husband, a better Dad so it's just work, but I'm committed to it. Votes: 0

The Commonwealth is a vital and positive partnership between countries striving to develop trade relations and promote democracy and human rights, united by shared values. Votes: 0

I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well. Votes: 0

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face. Votes: 0

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote. Votes: 0

...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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short. Votes: 0

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself. Votes: 0

Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You're never really happy. I'm certainly not. That's a good thing. It means you're always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine. Votes: 0

I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice. Votes: 0

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp. Votes: 0

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers. Votes: 0

The best songs for me come from the search for joy. You're in a negative place maybe, but you're still striving to improve yourself and find happiness. Votes: 0

I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better. Votes: 0

For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide -- laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course -- it was striving against the stream. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Winning Forever is not about the final score; it's about competing and striving to be the best. If you are in this pursuit, then you're already winning. Votes: 0

Patriotism is (like) loving your family whether it is good or bad, while always striving to make it better. Nationalism simply insists 'Hey my family is the best'.. Votes: 0

Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now. Votes: 0

Awareness cannot be at the end of a process because the very striving, and the process itself, is arising and appearing in the Awareness which is timelessly present. Votes: 0

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving. Votes: 0

It's not being homeless that matters. It's about who you are. Keep striving and you become somebody. Quit and you also become somebody.. but not the same person. Votes: 0

Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We're striving to stay in the arenas. We [Papa Roach] had just little things that just took our show a step up and were so stoked for that. Votes: 0

Jesus let the disciples know that they were striving in the wrong direction. They were trying to climb up a ladder that they instead should be climbing down. Votes: 0

Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical. Votes: 0

Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath. Votes: 0

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment. Votes: 0

Set your goals-without goals you cannot measure your progress. But don't become frustrated because there are no obvious victories. Remind yourself that striving can be more important than arriving. Votes: 0

Actors already striving in the theatre wouldn't dream of putting themselves on these shows; it means that only about 10% of the talent out there is being auditioned for parts. Votes: 0

The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent. Votes: 0

If you strive only to avoid the darkness or to cling to the light, you cannot live in balance. Try striving to be conscious of all that you are. Votes: 0

The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never become complacent or despondent about our progress. Votes: 0

Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its lack of sporting prowess. Votes: 0

Examine thus yourself from every side. Note harmful thoughts and every futile striving. Thus it is that heroes in the bodhisattva path Apply the remedies to keep a steady mind. Votes: 0

... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth. Votes: 0

I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation. Votes: 0

If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance. Votes: 0

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics. Votes: 0

A lot of people are always striving for bigger and better. People are always wondering if the grass is greener and then they'll​ start hearing things or meeting other people. Votes: 0

The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence. Votes: 0

The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy. Votes: 0

The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving for a state of affairs different from reality. Votes: 0

Believe that none of the effort you put into coming closer to God is ever wasted - even if in the end you don't achieve what you are striving for. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...in some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying it all worked out. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'd like to give the audience what they've always wanted to see and also I want to give the audience what they've never seen. It's these two things I'm striving for. Votes: 0

And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long. Votes: 0

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language. Votes: 0

Life is a beautiful thing. But you're always striving to be better in your art, striving to be heard. And obviously in this business, it's striving to be noticed and appreciated. Votes: 0

A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past. Votes: 0

It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going. Votes: 0

Better than glory, or honors, or fame, (Though I am striving for those to-day) To know that some heart will cherish my name, And think of me kindly, with blessings, alway. Votes: 0

If you are striving to be equal to your destiny and worthy of the possibilities that sleep in the clay of your heart, then you should be regularly reaching new horizons. Votes: 0

With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained. Votes: 0

I honestly think I'm the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified. Votes: 0

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Votes: 0

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true. Votes: 0

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving. Votes: 0

Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for. Votes: 0

Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others Votes: 0

If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty. Votes: 0

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry. Votes: 0

How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for Gods glory, while in fact one is seeking ones own glory? Votes: 0

Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women. Votes: 0

I believe you have to keep the theological standard high; the Lord said, 'Be perfect,' and the leaders have to be striving for that standard with all there is in them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future. Votes: 0

The real risk is not changing. I have to feel that I'm after something. If I make money, fine. But I'd rather be striving. It's the striving, man, it's that I want. Votes: 0

Just remember, you are not alone, in fact you are in a very common place with millions of others. We need to help each other and keep striving to reach our goals. Votes: 0

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry. Votes: 0

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christs sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself and seeks only to attract them to Christ. Votes: 0

Whatever you want, especially when you're striving to be the best in the world at something, there'll always be disappointments, and you can't be emotionally tied to them, cos' they'll break your spirit. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results. Votes: 0

The time has come to lay that baggage down and leave behind all the struggling and striving. You can be set free as you journey forward into a balanced healthy and rewarding future. Votes: 0

Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case. Votes: 0

It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing. Votes: 0

I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Dolgan: 'Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when "˜tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly. Votes: 0

Perfection is a paradigm meant to keep us striving and learning and growing. Like a wondrous sunset, perfection may be beyond our reach, but it is within our view and well worth seeking after. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god's hands. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. Votes: 0

The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment. Votes: 0

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession. Votes: 0

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I didn't set out wanting to be an actress. That's not what I did. I didn't go to class striving to become an actress. I just basically - honestly, I didn't have anything else going. Votes: 0

The Olympics is about bringing the world together and learning how to go through struggles. That's what inspired me before my career and that's been my inspiration ever since I was striving towards the 2008 Games. Votes: 0

China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves. Votes: 0

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0