Without any doubt, I am striving for power.

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...

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

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...

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

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

My name is a half an hour early, but my body is on time.

If you fall still stand your ground and strive for that new start.

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...

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

No level of success is ever too great to stop striving and thriving.

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...

If you’re going to do good work, the work has to scare you.

(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...

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...

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...

Every precious thing that you want out of life starts from believing that you possess an unstoppable drive to continuously strive and thrive.

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.

To dream only of what is ‘possible’ is to be fooled into believing that one is dreaming in the first place.

Moving forward should always be your one and only option to abide by in all circumstances. We were born to continuously strive and thrive.

Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.

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...

One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There’s always something just ahead.

If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it – keep going, keep going come what may.

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,...

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

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.

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.

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...