59 Quotes About Striving

Do you ever feel that you’re struggling to get anything done? You might wonder how you’ll ever accomplish your goals. Sometimes, we worry too much about the things we can’t control. But many of these things are out of our hands, and we should find ways to manage them with grace and persistence. This collection of striving quotes is a guide for those who struggle to keep moving towards their goals with courage and confidence.

Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort...
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Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone. Shannon L. Alder
I was taught to strive not because there were any...
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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. Madeleine K. Albright
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The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. 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. Roy T. Bennett
If you always do what is easy and choose the...
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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. Roy Bennett
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Your most important “want” should be the one you can control! Shannon L. Alder
I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead...
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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. Criss Jami
If you are striving to have a stable success and...
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If you are striving to have a stable success and riches in joy, you need to be truly dedicated to God Sunday Adelaja
You can't move things by not moving.
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You can't move things by not moving. Suzy Kassem
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You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: anyway, you can’t get the best out of it. ‘Now! Let’s have a real good talk’ reduces everyone to silence. ‘I must get a good sleep tonight’ ushers in hours of wakefulness. Delicious drinks are wastedon a really ravenous thirst. Is it similarly the very intensity of the longing that draws the iron curtain, that makes us feel we are staring into a vacuum when we think about our dead? ‘Them as asks’ (at any rate ‘as asks too importunately’) don’t get. Perhapscan’t. . C.s. Lewis
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You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: anyway, you can’t get the best out of it. ‘Now! Let’s have a real good talk’ reduces everyone to silence. ‘I must get a good sleep tonight’ ushers in hours of wakefulness. Delicious drinks are wasted on a really ravenous thirst. Is it similarly the very intensity of the longing that draws the iron curtain, that makes us feel we are staring into a vacuum when we think about our dead? ‘Them as asks’ (at any rate ‘as asks too importunately’) don’t get. Perhapscan’t. . C.s. Lewis
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You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: anyway, you can’t get the best out of it. ‘Now! Let’s have a real good talk’ reduces everyone to silence. ‘I must get a good sleep tonight’ ushers in hours of wakefulness. Delicious drinks are wasted on a really ravenous thirst. Is it similarly the very intensity of the longing that draws the iron curtain, that makes us feel we are staring into a vacuum when we think about our dead? ‘Them as asks’ (at any rate ‘as asks too importunately’) don’t get. Perhaps can’t. . C.s. Lewis
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You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: anyway, you can’t get the best out of it. ‘Now! Let’s have a real good talk’ reduces everyone to silence. ‘I must get a good sleep tonight’ ushers in hours of wakefulness. Delicious drinks are wastedon a really ravenous thirst. Is it similarly the very intensity of the longing that draws the iron curtain, that makes us feel we are staring into a vacuum when we think about our dead? ‘Them as asks’ (at any rate ‘as asks too importunately’) don’t get. Perhaps can’t. . C.s. Lewis
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Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace Hermann Hesse
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Anyone can fail at something they really don’t want. What really takes courage is going after something you want and then failing. There is more fulfillment in life knowing that you tried, rather than settled without a fight. Shannon L. Alder
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If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place. Criss Jami
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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. Victoria Addino
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Do your best, and be a little better than you are. Gordon B. Hinckley
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If you fall still stand your ground and strive for that new start. Jonathan Anthony Burkett
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To dream only of what is ‘possible’ is to be fooled into believing that one is dreaming in the first place. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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A kind of memory that tells usthat what we're now striving for was oncenearer and truer and attached to uswith infinite tenderness. Here all is distance, there it was breath. After the first homethe second one seems draughty and strangely sexed. Rainer Maria Rilke
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What we’re searching for will determine where we arrive, or if we arrive. And right in the middle of such risky choices, Christmas is God perfectly solving the problem by showing us what to search for and then bringing it to us. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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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 Rasheed Ogunlaru
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It is in building the best of our abilities that we ultimately destroy the worst of our liabilities. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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...adopt the "practice makes progress" approach Mark Hawthorne
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One of the ability of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion Sunday Adelaja
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A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best. Criss Jami
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All striving comes from lack, from a dissatisfaction with one's condition, and is thus suffering as long as it is not satisfied; but no satisfaction is lasting; instead, it is only the beginning of a new striving. We see striving everywhere inhibited in many ways, struggling everywhere; and thus always suffering; there is no final goal of striving, and therefore no bounds or end to suffering. Arthur Schopenhauer
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We all are striving for something every minute of the day, whether we realize it or not. Tim Hiller
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(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as if it were one of reason's most important occupations? Still more, how little cause have we to place trust in our reason if in one of the most important parts of our desire for knowledge it does not merely forsake us but even entices us with delusions and in the end betrays us! Or if the path has merely eluded us so far, what indications may we use that might lead us to hope that in renewed attempts we will be luckier than those who have gone before us? . Immanuel Kant
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Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain. Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we aredoomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of findingperfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won'tbe disappointed." 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. From this day forward, I vowedto myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, not God, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, ordominate me in any way. From this day forward, I was my own person, totake what I would, when I would, and I would answer only to myself. I'dbeen kept prisoner, held captive by greed. I'd been betrayed, deceived, tied to, used, poisoned. . but all that was over now. V.C. Andrews
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Thou hast gone on in all thy life hitherto, ever since thou wast born, in a continual opposition to God Himself, unto the infinite Lord, the eternal first being of all the world; thy life hath been nothing but enmity to this God: thou hast as directly opposed, and striven against, and resisted Him, as ever man did oppose, and resist, and strive with another man, and this thou hast done in the whole course of thy life: certainly there is more in this to humble a man than anything that can be spoken to shew him the evil of sin. Jeremiah Burroughs
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man. Lloyd Alexander
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Not your thinking, but your being, is distinctiveness. Therefore not after difference, ye think it, must ye strive; but after YOUR OWN BEING. At bottom, therefore, there is only one striving, namely, the striving after your own being. C.g. Jung
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In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence. Adam Smith
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No level of success is ever too great to stop striving and thriving. Unknown
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Every precious thing that you want out of life starts from believing that you possess an unstoppable drive to continuously strive and thrive. Unknown
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Moving forward should always be your one and only option to abide by in all circumstances. We were born to continuously strive and thrive. Unknown
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One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There’s always something just ahead. Irene Hunt
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One of the characteristics of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion Sunday Adelaja
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Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we take on giants, we too often confuse failure with fault, which I know too well. The only way back from such a bleak despondency is to shape humiliation into humility, to strive always to triumph over the darkness while never forgetting that the honor and the beauty are more in striving than in winning. When triumph at last comes, our efforts alone could not have won the day without that grace which surpasses all understanding and which will, if we allow it, imbue our lives with meaning. Dean Koontz
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All people intuitively seek emotional equanimity, freedom from anxiety, distress, and trepidation that might cause a person to lose symmetrical balance of their mind. Nature intended for human beings to live in an enthusiastic and curious manner, always exploring, striving, and creating. Kilroy J. Oldster
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Be not virtuous beyond your powers! And seek nothing from yourselves opposed to probability! .. Shy, ashamed, awkward, like the tiger whose spring hath failed–thus, ye higher men, have I often seen you slink aside. A cast which ye made had failed.. The higher its type, always the seldomer doth a thing succeed. Ye higher men here, have ye not all–been failures? Be of good cheer; what doth it matter? How much is still possible! Learn to laugh at yourselves, as ye ought to laugh! What wonder even that ye have failed and only half-succeeded, ye half-shattered ones! Doth not–man's future strive and struggle in you? Man's furthest, profoundest, star-highest issues, his prodigious powers–do not all these foam through one another in your vessel? What wonder that many a vessel shattereth! Learn to laugh at yourselves, as ye ought to laugh! Ye higher men, Oh, how much is still possible! . Friedrich Nietzsche
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Cease striving. Then there will be transformation. Zhuangzi
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We must always strive to reflect the highest vision of ourselves. Bryant McGill
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In this world, you only get what you grab for. Giovanni Boccaccio
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To stop working, striving and pushing, just because you have enough, therefore is a disservice to the Divine. Sunday Adelaja
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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
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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
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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. Unknown
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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
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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. Buddha
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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
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Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary. Sarah Ban Breathnach