Motivation Quote by Arthur Ashe

Ashe’s sentence has the unglamorous ring of someone refusing the myth that greatness is a lightning strike. “Tried” and “keep on” are modest verbs for a man who lived under extraordinary pressure; the point isn’t bravado, it’s maintenance. He frames striving less as a heroic choice than as a form of survival: “the only hope I have.” That phrase strips away the motivational-poster sheen and replaces it with something closer to necessity. If you stop, you don’t merely fail to win - you disappear.

The subtext is that achievement, especially for a Black athlete in Ashe’s era, isn’t granted on talent alone. “Worthwhile and lasting” carries a double demand: not just trophies, but meaning that outlives the scoreboard. Ashe’s career was defined by barriers he didn’t ask for and couldn’t ignore - playing in overwhelmingly white spaces, navigating expectation to be both exceptional and exemplary, later living publicly with HIV and using that visibility as advocacy. In that light, “striving” reads as discipline plus moral insistence: keep moving, keep building, keep earning a permanence the culture is reluctant to award you.

What makes the line work is its quiet calculus. It admits doubt while refusing surrender. Ashe doesn’t claim certainty that effort pays off; he claims that effort is the only rational way to argue with time. The sentence is a compact philosophy of legacy: you don’t wait to be remembered, you practice being unforgettable.