#striving

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 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

My name is a half an hour early, but my body is on time. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#aspire #body #early #fame #infamy

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

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. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#inspirational #perseverance #striving #success #faith

One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There’s always something just ahead. ↗

— Irene Hunt

#journey #life #pursuit #striving #life

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#foreshadowing #striving #excellence

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#dominance #maintain #middle-class #norms #prevail

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

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