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Letter "S" » striving
«Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted»
«Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.»
Author: Dr. Robert H. Goddard
| About:
Elderly,
Youth
| Keywords:
aged, compassionate, resolve, sometime, striving, sympathetic, tender, tolerant
«Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing»
Author: Harriet Beryl Braiker
| Keywords:
demoralize, demoralized, demoralizing, excellence, motivates, perfection, striving
«Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.»
«The desire to know and to understand are themselves connotative, i.e. have a striving character, and are as much personality needs as the `basic needs' we have already discussed.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
connotative, desire to know, discussed, e'en, i.e., I E, striving
«The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.»
«Restless senses, O Arjuna, forcibly carry away the mind of even a wise person striving for perfection.»
«The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.»
«The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
Advances, blind, Blind Faith, certain, evolution, further, furthered, furthering, furthers, genuine, lie, mankind, path, rational, religiosity, seems, spiritual, spiritual being, spiritual death, Spiritual evolution, striving, strivings, The Fear, The Path, The Spiritual
«Striving to be better, oft we mar what's well.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Doing Your Best
| Keywords:
Mar, oft, striving
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