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Last updated on November 14, 2024.
I grew up a happy kid in Toronto. I've never suffered. I've never even had a real job! But I understand sadness and striving, and those two things tie into all the roles that I've played.
People smarter than me told me that my potential was bigger than just winning a belt. Now I believe that, and that's what I'm striving for.
Endurance running was my passion, my ride. So here, I was in the driver's seat, running for two days straight pushing the mental and physical limits striving to be better, to go farther, to give more.
When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
Winning Forever is not about the final score; it's about competing and striving to be the best. If you are in this pursuit, then you're already winning.
Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport.
Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for?
Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings. And why not? Because we are practically the ultimate paradox: the finite made for the infinite.
Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.
Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.
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.
I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.
For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people?
See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest.
Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.
The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.
Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.
My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.
Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.
If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.
I don't stress about the outcome because I know the only thing I have control over is my own hard work. So long as I'm being honest about that and striving to be the best version of myself, I'm happy.
Perfection is one thing and enjoyment another; these two having different ends, engage men differently.
People who become 'elite' at what they do aren't striving to be 'elite' just to join some special club. They take great joy and satisfaction in the pursuit of mastery, and they compete against themselves, not others.
The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.
I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.
Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.
I want to create a space that moves people. It doesn't matter if it is a house, or a museum, or whatever. So, it is somebody sitting on that lawn, just going around and around and feeling really happy. That is something that I'm striving for.
What religion cannot do, GRACE does! Grace empowered obedience beats striving and performing any time!! Every time!!
It's not being homeless that matters. It's about who you are. Keep striving and you become somebody. Quit and you also become somebody.. but not the same person.
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.
No matter what I choose to become, I believe I can change the world. And as I am striving to change the world, I will be happy.
Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.
Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.
I'd like to give the audience what they've always wanted to see and also I want to give the audience what they've never seen. It's these two things I'm striving for.
Awareness cannot be at the end of a process
because the very striving, and the process itself,
is arising and appearing in the Awareness
which is timelessly present.
The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.
In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding.
It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.
It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.
If you think of the public lives of people who've been unlucky, it seems showbiz is some tumultuous crazy world but some are fortunate and some unfortunate. All I can do is keep striving to be better.
How do you try to play 'Captain Hook' better than, or as well as, Dustin Hoffman? You can't. It's perfection.
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
When I think of those who were the greatest in their respective sports, it was their drive for perfection that made them the best.
There is no control and perfection is arrogant. Practice messiness, letting go, and doing things badly.
Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.
God has this...hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality.
Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.
If you have God's presence, you have favor. One minute of God's presence can accomplish more than 20 years of your striving.
We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.
The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.
The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence.
Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.
Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.
If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.
The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other times, they're critical and faultfinding. And finally they're doggedly persistent in striving to reach their goals.
I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.
Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
Just look at me! Beauty. Style. A little vision of perfection. I love myself and that's enough.
