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Quotes about Striving

No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.
- John Mayer
Every Christian who strives for holiness of life experiences dryness of soul. It is to most people a heart-rending experience. It is a paradox, for the soul becomes confused when it realizes the harder it strives the further away Jesus seems to be.
- Mother Angelica
No one who strives with full faith and heart for the blessings of eternal life will be denied. And how great will be the joy and how much deeper the appreciation then after enduring in patience and faith now.
- Henry B. Eyring
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt...
- Joseph Heller
Philippians 4:13 does not say we can do anything we want to do because we are strong enough, smart enough, or hardworking enough. No, in fact, it leaves no room at all for human effort or striving of any kind. The secret to being able to do what we need to do is realizing that we cannot do it alone; we can only do it in Christ.
- Joyce Meyer
Whatever we gain by the works of our own flesh, we will have to maintain the same way we gained it.
- Joyce Meyer
There is nothing impossible to him who will try. Alexander the Great
- Joyce Meyer
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
- Washington Irving
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.
- Oswald Chambers
Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.
- Teresa of Avila
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.
- Michelangelo