80 Quotes About 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?

Growing up, I learned I'd be praised and rewarded for my suffering, for my strong efforts to be good, but every year God smote.

Henrietta was bitter. Nothing in her life had turned out well. Like everyone else, she had striven all her life to achieve happiness. Yet it seemed to her that she had never been happy.

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.

All your failures and hopes, your suffering and striving, are inconsequential, compared with this. They are nothing.You are nothing.It was a relief to be nothing; it felt deep and beautiful and true.

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

One of the characteristics of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion

You don't get to leap from being a 17 year old naughthead who doesn't know anything and who isn't disciplined to the critic of Judeo-Christian society. Especially when you can look at your own life and think about how many things you are doing you know are wrong and you could fix that you aren't fixing.

You may not have a hell of a lot of good sense but you do have to use the hell out of the little that you do have.