#striving

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#away #become #beings #come #discovering

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#fellow #fellow man #man #oneself #prayer

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

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#know #never #our #salvation #striving

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward. ↗

— Robin Trower

#forward #going #move #move forward #something

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#am #crowned #discarded #discontinued #efforts

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#harder #himself #overcome #striving #than

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#duty #else #everything #god #hands

How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#london #morning #nature #petty-ambitions #sherlock-holmes

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. ↗

— Paul Elmer More

#bound #calm #hearken #ignorance #indifference

Do your best, and be a little better than you are. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#self-improvement #striving #excellence