Perpetual Striving Quotes

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.

It's a never-ending struggle, which is great. You can always get better! You can never get there. It's a journey with no arrival. And that's the beauty of it -- that you can always become better the next day. It's pretty cool to think about it in that sense. Tomorrow I will be a better player than I was today.

What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down.

What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished?

There's no such thing as 'making it.'

Once we reach our goal, we immediately feel compelled to set a higher goal. We're left in a vacuum of unfulfillment.

Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.

There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.

As you go along, you realize you have ambitions but when you get there, you want something else, so you're moving very quickly.