You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter. — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
“It is in building the best of our abilities that we ultimately destroy the worst of our liabilities.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
I keep striving to be perfect, it keeps you pushing and pushing and pushing. — Cooper Kupp Copy Share Image
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
“Vision and rest and work and joy and Jesus and difficulty are meant to coexist. But too often, caught up in our… — Jennie Allen Copy Share Image
Every opportunity I get I'll keep striving and keep working hard, especially in training because that proves everything. — Callum Hudson-Odoi Copy Share Image
Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining,… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
“Once," he added, "you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I think that the things that are interesting sometimes, when you're striving for a sound, you just get it wrong 'cause of… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going… — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
“Not his match! And have you not the heart in you to be anything but best? How many are his match? How… — Edith Pargeter Copy Share Image
Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
“We have been striving for the things of the world and in this striving, have thrown ourselves into exile. When enough pain… — Edward Weiss Copy Share Image
I'm ambitious. I do think you have a tendency to be less happy sometimes when you're a seeker. You can be disenchanted… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
Striving is exhausting. Sometimes I do say things like, 'I wish I were not quite this driven to be excellent.' It's not… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“Not all journeys have destinations. Power is the ability to effect change, and people who create change ride that tide, with far-reaching… — wildbow Copy Share Image
“Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her,… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Life is too short for fearmongering and becoming ensnarled in lengthy periods of depression. We must use our time judiciously and never… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“To survive is to strive. The problem is the tendency to strive for the wrong things, especially to emulate those who have… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Or so the poet… — Richard Stidham Copy Share Image
Basketball isn't easy. All my life I've been striving to make myself better. It's a full time commitment. To be the best,… — LeBron James Copy Share Image
“Striving is fine, as long as it’s tempered by the realization that, in an entropic universe, the final outcome is out of… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
