Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best. — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
I try to use and, furthermore, strive to focus on the actual facts surrounding and impacting any issue. — Matt Rosendale Copy Share Image
Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing. — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness. — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
I don't ever try to sound like, 'it's a piece of cake. Be chaste 'til your married.' But you strive and battle.… — Philip Rivers Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it. — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from… — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context… — Benjamin Zander Copy Share Image
Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess.… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
An artist strives to frame his ideals in an image; to challenge his audience and to make his vision immortal. But the… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Force car is a statement about New York being one of the greatest fashion capitals of the world and… — Brad Goreski Copy Share Image
We can build influence by self promotion, but God will only promote those who do not promote themselves. That which is built… — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image
Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous,… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Meekness is an unchanging state of mind, which both in honor and dishonor remains the same. Meekness consists in praying sincerely and… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Patience is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught with adversity. No matter how hard we try, our… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by… — Laozi Copy Share Image
It is in vain that we search for an essential difference between good and evil, for their constituents are the same. The… — Charles Hampden-Turner Copy Share Image
Since 'the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force' (Mt. 11:12), and it is impossible for the… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
Go on a living spree. While you're here, why not live it up? Make your list, then go be, do, and have… — Clifton Anderson Copy Share Image
When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.” — Socrates Litsios Copy Share Image
When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“Strength does not come in those times when you hit the mark; it comes in those times when you strive to but… — Deborah Brodie Copy Share Image
“Always strive to get to the top in life because its usually crowded at the bottom.” — Habeeb Akande Copy Share Image
I'm always someone who wants to strive to prove someone wrong or show something that maybe they haven't seen. — Mason Mount Copy Share Image
“Don’t strive to be superior to others; strive to be better than you were yesterday.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great… — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image