#striving

You are no longer a boy, but a full-grown man. If you are careless and lazy now, and keep putting things off, you will remain without improving, living and dying as an ordinary person.

And you, even if you are not yet a Socrates, ought to live as one who wishes to be a Socrates.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in you.

Only where there is life is there also will: not will to live, but—so I teach you—will to power!

Better to stumble while running toward the truth than to sit contentedly in the lap of error.

In the arena of human life, honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.

If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals.

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Silence is the ultimate completion of all striving.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.