Quotes about Striving

When you have to manage the world, please everyone, earn more than you did last year, and work off five pounds, you will be driven. If not, you run the risk of being un-American or even un-Christian because our economy and churches rely on such people. Even when paralyzed by circumstances, a stressed person is a driven person.

An achievement is bondage.It obliges one to a higher achievement.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifest

We pride ourselves on nothing but the courage to be trivial. For a person is simple in his striving for truth, and it is honest to admit this openly.

Are you not in a race; and is not the prize the crown of glory; and should you then sit still or take your ease? (281)

greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection.

The path to Christian perfection always runs across the collapse of our own moral efforts and self-established ideals.

Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory.

I recognize that winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.

I'm bad at math.