Striving Quotes - page 3

I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women - at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not. (John Keats)
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. View quote
Albert Einstein
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. View quote
Albert Einstein
Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest. View quote
Albert Einstein
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting. View quote
John Ralston Saul
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. View quote
Raymond E. Feist
In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property in Hildale and Colorado City is held in trust for the church. Striving to be as self-sufficient as possible, the community grows a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, and everyone, including children, is expected to help bring in the yield. View quote
Scott Anderson
Acceptance and its counterpart, understanding, are crucial to achieving relationship harmony. It is sacred love, the highest form of love, and like most things worth striving for in life, it requires patience, commitment, personal responsibility, and practice. View quote
Arielle Ford
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. (Steffi Graf)
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. View quote
Brandon Mull
Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important. View quote
George Zebrowski
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. View quote
Lakshmi Mittal
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound. View quote
B.K.S. Iyengar
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. View quote
Denis Waitley
I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve. View quote
Gordon Strachan
People striving for approval from others become phony. View quote
Ichiro Suzuki
If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality. View quote
Tibor R. Machan
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. View quote
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity. (Andrew Shue)
That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection. View quote
Armstrong Williams
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease. View quote
Armstrong Williams
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. View quote
Adrian Rogers
It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential. View quote
Brad Henry