Striving Quotes

Striving Quote of the day

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

Winning Forever is not about the final score; it's about competing and striving to be the best. If you are in this pursuit, then you're already winning.

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.

There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.

It's all about... getting back up and getting back to work and striving to be the best you can be.

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god's hands. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well

Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.

A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.

I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

Surrender is when we stop toiling and striving and we begin receiving and arriving. Nothing is more beautiful to experience than the inner rest that follows surrender.

To stop working, striving and pushing, just because you have enough, therefore is a disservice to the Divine.

If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. Butafter all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted amountain high! A hill wasn't enough.

No one can be a better you than you. Therefore, striving continuously to become a better you is the only path to your greatness.

...adopt the "practice makes progress" approach

Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.

If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones.

Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!

Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.

If you are striving to have a stable success and riches in joy, you need to be truly dedicated to God

You can't move things by not moving.

None of us have reached the peak of perfection, but it shouldn’t stop anyone from trying to make the climb.

when you meet the thickest darkness in life, pray for the brightest light.

Those of you who are convinced that you missed your calling, open all doors keep the entrance way clear. This way you will not miss that next call.