When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.
I have confidence that whatever I set in my mind will happen. Everything I strived for I reached.
I've always been a guy that has strived for dominating, not only winning.
I've always strived to be successful, not famous.
Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.