Striving Quotes

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

One errs as long as one strives.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

We're never satisfied with where we are as players.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

Forget about musical credibility. I think, unless you're Radiohead or whatever, it's pointless striving for that. What I would like is some respect.

Keep working and saving and striving for a better future for your children, and for their children, even if you won't be around to see it pay off.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

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.

What did you try hard at today?

Strive for perfection in everything you do.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.

Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

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.

I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

I want to keep pushing myself so I never feel settled. I don't really know if it's going to end up working. I'm stressed out most of the time.

Ambition is the immoderate desire of power.