I believe you have to keep the theological standard high; the Lord said, 'Be perfect,' and the leaders have to be striving for that standard with all there is in them.

- Adrian Rogers

It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.

- Emily Blunt

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

- Denis Waitley

That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.

- Dale Earnhardt

Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.

- Chad Harbach

Fans, especially ours, demand championships. That's what we're striving for.

- Clay Matthews III

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

- Bjorn Ulvaeus

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

- Buddha

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

- Brene Brown

I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.

- Alice Cooper

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.

- Alison Pill

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

- Abbott L. Lowell

Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.

- Antonio Munoz Molina

Without any doubt, I am striving for power.

- Alexei Navalny

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

- Armstrong Williams

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

- Arthur Ashe

I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

- Arianna Huffington

If one comes across sometimes as being cold or brusque, it's simply because I'm striving for the best.

- Anna Wintour