#striving

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#harder #himself #overcome #striving #than

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land. ↗

— Barack Obama

#care #century #debate #health #health care

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

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

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

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. ↗

— Buddha

#anger #begun #ceased #controversy #feel

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

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

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#bear #beings #cent #constantly #down