We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
If I keep striving to put on the best quality show based on the values I have, I don't have to think "oh we're crossing the line" because the line is built in. We follow that and do the best quality work we can.
Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of me, someone smarter and more ambitious than me, who'd be sure to carry me along into the version of adulthood I thought I should be striving for?
It's important to relax and not put too much pressure on oneself, players must be patient when striving to improve.
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.
I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.
The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism
I think were all a part of something. We're striving (to be) more than we are. . . I really don't only see religion as being for people who are perfect. They've got it all set. And I'm not like that.
The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he wants to achieve, and he designs his instruments and directs his thoughts accordingly. Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong. . . There is no other effective way in which discoveries might be generated.
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.
The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.