We must always strive to reflect the highest vision of ourselves.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Bryant Mcgill Highness Reflection Striving Vision

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

~ Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio Ambition Life Striving

Even if we’ve never been inside a synagogue or a mosque or a church—even if we have, and vowed never to go back—deep down in our striving hearts, beneath all the ambition and the fear, we suspect that we were made for a different sort of life.

~ Heather Choate Davis

Heather Choate Davis Ambition Faith Fear God Striving

Not his match! And have you not the heart in you to be anything but best? How many are his match? How many in this world do you think stand in the front rank? Are all the rest of us to give up and sit on our hands rather than serve humbly where we deserve?

~ Edith Pargeter

Edith Pargeter Perfection Striving Talent

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

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Excellence Foreshadowing Striving

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.

~ V.c. Andrews

V.c. Andrews Dreaming Dreams Happiness Hill Hoping Longing Mountain Mountains Satisfy Striving

The life of hero is the tale of a person overcoming personal hardship and obstacles while striving to achieve an exultant victory that voices repressed citizens’ ecstatic thoughts and dreams.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Kilroy J. Oldster Hardship Hardship Overcome Hardship Quotes Hero Heroes Mythology Myths Strive Striving Striving For Greatness

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

~ Sunday Adelaja

Sunday Adelaja Disservice Divine Pushing Stop Striving Working

Men in the vehement pursuit of happiness grasp at the first object which offers to them any prospect of satisfaction, but immediately they turn an introspective eye and ask, ‘Am I happy?’ and at once from their innermost being a voice answers distinctly, ‘No, you are as poor and as miserable as before.' Then they think it was the object that deceived them and turn precipitately to another. But the second holds as little satisfaction as the first…Wandering then through life restless and tormented, at each successive station they think that happiness dwells at the next, but when they reach it happiness is no longer there. In whatever position they may find themselves there is always another one which they discern from afar, and which but to touch, they think, is to find the wished delight, but when the goal is reached discontent has followed on the way stands in haunting constancy before them.

~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Happiness Hedonism Misery Striving

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

~ Arthur Ashe

Arthur Ashe Achieving Striving

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

~ Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams World Doing Striving

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

~ Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi Striving Absence

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

~ Buddha

Buddha Anger Striving Feel

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

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger Man Me Striving

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

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Sarah Ban Breathnach Struggle Remember Striving