Striving Quotes

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.

There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

Always let your reach exceed your grasp.

Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.

Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

Man's restlessness makes him strive.

Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.