Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents – those constantly striving for betterment – have any hope of surviving.
In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.
I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.
I love being able to come in every single day and work out and watch film and practice with guys who are all striving for the same goal.
The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
Understanding why we are here, what we are supposed to be doing, relationships, and striving to do more other than play football – when you get understanding like that and apply it, it works wonders.
Everyone is comparing lives on social media and wants the perfect body, perfect image, perfect outfit, perfect life – we’re striving for this perfection, and it’s so unhealthy because there’s no such thing as perfection.
I spent the first 12 years of my life growing up in Singapore. Back then, in the early ’80s, it was still a tropical island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula striving to shine on the world stage.
Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn’t work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.
Holiness through Christ’s Spirit is the accountability every Christian should be striving towards.
Striving for equality and working together with people different from us is what America is all about, because beneath our differences we are bound by a common humanity we all share.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
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 would just encourage my younger self to not care about people’s perceptions and to love myself fully and to keep progressing and striving for what you are going to become.
My general idea about my work is that it’s more about the work than the things that come with it. I am constantly striving to improve on that and find new things to do there. That journey itself is so interesting is because there’s so much to do that there’s no room for doubt there.
China is going to be one of Avon’s largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves.
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
I’m still hungry. I’m still striving… You have to understand: my mum has worked hard to look after her children, but we have always been poor; we have always been at rock bottom. I want to change my family history forever.
In the younger ages, maybe you can rely more on your talent, but when you get older, you see that when you combine it with hard work, you can get everything out of your potential, and that’s what I’m striving to do – to get everything out of my potential.
Trophies or no trophies, we are all just striving to do some really good art and help people’s lives with it.
I’ve never looked at my career as something that I was striving to get to one position or another. For me, it was one step at a time.
I personally try to buy the best-quality items at the best price that do the least harm and from companies that are striving to do good – many of those companies are run by young entrepreneurs.
If you want to be the best, you can’t take the path of least resistance. Every morning, you wake up, and your mind tells you it’s too early, and your body tells you you’re a little too sore, but you’ve got to look deep within yourself and know what you want and what you’re striving for.
One day in God’s grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.
Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.
Winning is important in this league. Just check your ego at the door. It’s all about winning. That’s what we all should be striving for.
I tend to get caught up in striving for perfection and not so much the accepting excellence part.
The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they’re not the enemy. They’re the people that hire you. They’re the people that are going to give you a job.
‘Selma’ is a story about voice – the voice of a great leader; the voice of a community that triumphs despite turmoil; and the voice of a nation striving to grow into a better society. I hope the film reminds us that all voices are valuable and worthy of being heard.
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.
The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.
After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
Success isn’t about reaching your goals; it’s about striving for things, like the joy of trying to raise a family, trying to be a successful singer, trying to write good songs, trying to be a better person. It’s that old thing about life being about the journey, not the destination.
I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there’s nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.
I have to keep pushing and keep striving, and also keep being me on the field.
The Spurs, obviously – you look at an organization like that and say that’s what you want to be consistent, because they’ve become consistent. That’s what you start striving for night in and night out.
Let our lives be in accordance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles.
The people on programmes like ‘Made in Chelsea’ just want to be celebrities. It’s so depressing. No proper actor has that as a goal. I’m striving for longevity in my career.
So, I would write songs… I sort of loved it and hated it in the sense that I would be like, it’s never good enough, and I didn’t think it was that good, but I always kept striving to write better and better stuff.
There’s never been completion in my football career because I’ve always been striving for that next thing.
The best progressive policies are constructed by learning from past experiences while striving toward a more equitable future.
LeBron carries a certain weight. You feel him all the time. On the court, off the court, in the organization. I don’t say ‘weight’ in a bad way, but his presence is always felt. He is striving for greatness at all times. Because he’s such a magnetic personality and such an incredible basketball player, people follow him.
I’m striving to be the best ever.
Without any doubt, I am striving for power.
America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
All lives matter, including black lives, which is a value we should be striving for rather than condemning.
I love ‘Braxton Family Values!’ I love seeing a strong family unit striving for success while dealing with everyday struggles like everyone else. Whatever drama they find themselves in, they find a way to solve it and get back to the importance of family. A positive show for sure.
I have this firm belief that when I step on the field that I believe I’m the best player on the field, but I also believe that I’m not good enough yet. Because of that, I need to make sure that I’m striving to improve every aspect of my game.
I don’t stress about the outcome because I know the only thing I have control over is my own hard work. So long as I’m being honest about that and striving to be the best version of myself, I’m happy.
It’s a constant progression, and as long as you’re constantly striving to be better, you’re headed in the right direction.
America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism.
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
