Striving Quotes

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 afterlife. (Arianna Huffington)
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art. View quote
Donald Knuth
In the next world, I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it. View quote
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Instead of striving to be right at high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures. View quote
Edward de Bono
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. View quote
Zhuangzi
Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich man to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life. View quote
Sean O`Casey
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him. View quote
Viktor Frankl
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. View quote
Madeleine Albright
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. View quote
Cicely Tyson
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. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future. (Alfred Jodl)
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another like the right and the left hand. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. View quote
Ovid
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. View quote
Aristotle
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. View quote
Marc Chagall
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. View quote
Suze Orman
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. View quote
Alva Myrdal
I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words. View quote
Fred Frith
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. View quote
Islom Karimov
Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. View quote
William Hurt
This is the tragedy: 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. (Thomas Ligotti)
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough. View quote
Alain de Botton
Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties - French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time. View quote
Frederick Rolfe
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. View quote
George Eliot