David Sarnoff Quotes

It's about the journey and the process. I do things because I love doing them, or trying them.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . .

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

It's getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work... I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.

Anytime you finish a climb, there's always the next thing you can try.

Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

There is a reason they called it chasing your dreams and not walking after them.

If your dreams aren't challenging, they're not really a dream.

We do not do everything perfectly, but the intentions are there.

We are all trying to achieve our dreams.

You can't ever reach perfection in this business, but that's one of the things I love. It's something that can't ever be mastered, but you can attempt to get as close as possible.

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.