Striving Quotes - page 10

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. (Andrea Jung)
I grew up a happy kid in Toronto. I've never suffered. I've never even had a real job! But I understand sadness and striving, and those two things tie into all the roles that I've played. View quote
Alison Pill
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has a difficult job living with his civilian bosses, the Secretary of Defense and the President, striving to convince them in terms they can understand matters that he views as military necessity, and, in General Wheeler's case, within the concept of one thing at a time. One thing at a time was all he could hope to accomplish. Since Vietnam was the visible part of the iceberg, the part he knew was perturbing his civilian bosses, Vietnam rather than the strategic reserve was the context in which to present the request for additional troops. If he could gain authority to raise the troops, exactly what was to be done with them could be decided once the troops were actually available. View quote
William Westmoreland
Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price. View quote
Antonio Munoz Molina
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. View quote
Chad Harbach
That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race. View quote
Dale Earnhardt
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. View quote
Dorothy Hamill
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. View quote
Emily Blunt
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. View quote
Gary Vaynerchuk
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. View quote
James S. Coleman
There are popular celebrities, there are unpopular celebrities and then there are the walking dead. You know the walking dead when you see them: they look like Mel Gibson, still striving for drunken charm in an L.A. County mug shot, after getting picked up on a DWI charge that included anti-semitic slurs directed at the police. (Jeffrey Kluger)
Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving. View quote
Jennifer Hudson
Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life. View quote
Joseph B. Wirthlin
One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts. View quote
Joseph Prince
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. View quote
Juliet Stevenson
To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge. View quote
L. Lionel Kendrick
At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm. View quote
Ma Huateng
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. View quote
Marc Veasey
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. View quote
Drew Sidora
I'm always striving to lose weight. And it's not a matter of wanting to be a size 3 again - I brought out my leotards, and a friend thought they were doll clothes. Being heavy isn't good for you. How long can your heart take the strain? So, I never give up, but it's hard. View quote
Liz Torres
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. (Mary J. Blige)
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. View quote
Mike Moreno
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. View quote
Noah Baumbach
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. View quote
Paul Gillmor
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. View quote
Rudolf Arnheim