#striving

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

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale. ↗

— January Jones

#fairy tale #i #just #keep #mind

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're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#be happy #comfort #constantly #enthusiastic #fame

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

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#determination #directed #each #economy #enforced

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 don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words. ↗

— Fred Frith

#i #i can #into #know #put

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry. ↗

— Abbott L. Lowell

#approaches #discover #every #fragment #larger

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #possess #quality #striving #strong