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Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Motivation
Harriet Braiker

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For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
Suffering
Thomas Carlyle

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Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
Ideology
John Le Carre

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Happiness
Chuang Tzu

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
Happiness
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.
Ideals and Idealism
Ryszard Kapuscinski

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

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Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.
Excellence
Sir Lawrence Olivier

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

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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Excellence
Pat Riley

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Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
Perfection
William Shakespeare

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun