#striving

The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#enemy #getting #give #going #hire

Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis. ↗

— Brené Brown

#anxiety #depression #healthy-striving #life #life-paralysis

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#achieving #anything #because #ever #i

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#always #believed #cautiously #done #forward

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights. ↗

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

#cultural #declaration #human #human rights #must

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. ↗

— Samuel Daniel

#come #dumb #griefs #his #light

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#give #great #human #model #perfection

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. ↗

— George Eliot

#called #enough #failure #good #grander

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#civil #civil rights #complaint #credit #dogged

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#american #asunder #being #body #dark