Striving Quotes - page 11

There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing. (Ryan Giggs)
France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal. View quote
Rich Lowry
There's this certain caliber of dancing I was striving for when I was younger, and it's very hard for me to go back and just do it for fun. But I take all other kinds of classes: I take jazz classes, modern classes, and I love doing that instead of going to the gym. The gym is not very much fun. View quote
Summer Glau
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary. View quote
Sarah Ban Breathnach
I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant. View quote
Tim Cahill
Now the passage being very strait and narrow... I was well nigh quite beat out, by striving to get in. View quote
John Bunyan
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. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
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. View quote
William James
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is ''All striving is vain,'' will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him. View quote
William James
Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition. (George Will)
Don't threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid. View quote
Menachem Begin
Nobody is to be blamed for being born a slave; but a slave who not only eschews a striving for freedom but justifies and eulogies his slavery. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame. View quote
Zadie Smith
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Chopin's biography remains obscure. He withheld himself all his life, in diametrical contrast to the openness and accessibility of his contemporary Franz Liszt. Chopin always conveyed the impression of a suffering soul, not to say a martyr, almost as if this was to nourish or even underpin his inspiration. Striving for crystalline perfection, he never ventured outside his own domain. You know, the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard is said to have given, as a child, "martyr” as his chosen career. Chopin must have shared this cult of the ‘Pater dolorosus.' View quote
Burkard Schliessmann
It's in the fight, in the striving, in the mountains unclimbed that fulfillment lies, so if you have nothing to strive for, you have nothing to make you happy. When it comes to "for better" or "for worse," "for better" is often harder on a marriage. View quote
Merle Shain
Without any doubt, I am striving for power. View quote
Alexei Navalny
Having climbed to a height, it is easier to slip from it than to stay there after the zest of striving is removed. View quote
Henry S. Haskins
There's a deeper reason, though, for not striving for excellence, ... and it has to do with how we view ourselves and our endeavors in this world. Many of us recognize that not trying is a reasonable excuse for not succeeding. That is, if we don't give something our best effort, we can always point to that fact as the basis for poor results. If, on the other hand, we give... everything we've got and still don't win, well, that's a fairly bitter pill to swallow.... I don't buy this defeatist attitude. (John Vorhaus)
To remember the ever present Divine at all times, even while acting in the world, is the most positive practice for a seeker who is striving to evolve. He will thereby transform his inner personality from its present condition, to a state of harmony and efficiency. View quote
Chinmayananda Saraswati
Oh, what am I, and what are they? Masquers but striving to deceive Themselves and others; and believe It is enough, if none shall know The covered mass of care below. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Strange, that ignorance should be our best happiness in this life, and yet be the one we are ever striving to destroy ! View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights. View quote
Björn Ulvaeus