#striving

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#aged #because #been #being #compassionate

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it. ↗

— Cicely Tyson

#begin #believe #entire #entire life #having

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#film #i #learn #making #personally

I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#gave #i #over #people #polish

I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#dream #father #fulfilled #had #hard

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#around #boxer #confidence #dance #dreams

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential. ↗

— Brad Henry

#excellence #expectations #full #only #our

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#cases #god #itself #striving #think

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#jewel #joy #prize #striving #toy

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#arrogant #creatures #early #god-like #i