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“I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.”

Feelings Fall Actors Process Strive Authenticity

Author:Juliet Stevenson

“There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.”

World Way Fall Perfect Ideals Strive Inspired Silly Traits Perfectionism Divergent

Author:Veronica Roth

“They only fall, that strive to move, Or lose, that care to keep.”

Care Moving Fall Loses Destiny Fate Strive

Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.”

Ifs May Light Fall Numbers Virtue Greater Faults Strive Commit Neglect Repentance Large Numbers

Book:Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

Source: Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

“I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women -- at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not.”

Mind Moments Feelings Certain Fall Women Imagination Pure Fairs Strive Goddess Nests Boyish

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.”

Believe Pain Faith Fall Loss Doubt Greater Trouble Sorrow Gains Rain Crosses Strive Height Bees Anguish Swarms Hives

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.”

Men May Faces Fall Effort He Man Errors Strive Credit Dust Sweat Daring Again And Again Strife Arena Shortcomings Daring Greatly Daring To Be Great

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height and spreadings: witness, clowns, fools, and fellows, who from nothing, are lifted up some few steps on fortune's ladder: where, seeing the glorious representment of honour above them, they are so eager to embrace it, that they strive to leap thither at once, and by over-reaching themselves in the way, they fail of the end, and fall.”

Way Ends Fall Grows Steps Growing Up Failing Seeing Fool Fellows Embrace Fortune Strive Witness Height Arrogance Glorious Soil Reaching Leap Honour Weed Ladders Clown

Author:Owen Feltham