Quotes about Striving
Sin will not only be striving, acting, rebelling, troubling, disquieting, but if let alone, if not continually mortified, it will bring forth great, cursed, scandalous, soul-destroying sins.
- John Owen
Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort? That's what matters. The rest of it just gets in the way.
- John Wooden
Perfection is what you are striving for, but perfection is an impossibility. However, striving for perfection is not an impossibility. Do the best you can under the conditions that exist. That is what counts.
- John Wooden
You never stop trying.
- John Wooden
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
- Albert Einstein
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.
- Milan Kundera
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissastifaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
- Martha Graham
all heathen books are poisoned through and through with this striving after praise and honor.
- Martin Luther
The greedy misuse the world by striving to acquire it.
- Martin Luther
The great compete not only against others, but against themselves.
- Matshona Dhliwayo