#striving

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

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now. ↗

— Steffi Graf

#been #best #could #going #guided

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#happiness #striving

There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life. ↗

— Sean O'Casey

#hallows #his #hollows #law #life

Those of you who are convinced that you missed your calling, open all doors keep the entrance way clear. This way you will not miss that next call. ↗

— Victoria Addino

#motivation #opportunity #strength #striving #success-self-improvement

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#america #france #ideal #involves #matter

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. ↗

— Flora Lewis

#arisen #aspiration #concepts #democracy #dignity

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

Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#art #derived #derives #man #manifestation