Striving Quotes

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

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.

In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.'

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

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

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

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.

I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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