#striving

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. ↗

— Ovid

#denied #ever #forbidden #striving #us

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows. ↗

— Frances Rodman

#brave #brightness #courage #fail #faith

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#always #apple #back #business #came

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world. ↗

— Islom Karimov

#deeds #good #good deeds #goodness #justice

People striving for approval from others become phony. ↗

— Ichiro Suzuki

#become #others #people #phony #striving

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#bring #chore #chosen #course #glory

Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#doing #everything #fun #going #healthy

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#broken #commercial #disguised #effect #false

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

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