striving quotes

We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

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

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.