Browsing Quotes With Tag: growth (8)
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Success in life is directly proportional to the number of awkward conversations you’re willing to have.
Speaker: UnknownPosted: 28 Jun 2011 at 5:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You have the right to work, but for the work’s sake only. You have no right to the fruits of work. Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working. Never give way to laziness, either.
Perform every action with your heart fixed on the Supreme Lord. Renounce attachment to the fruits. Be even-tempered in success and failure; for it is this evenness of temper which is meant by yoga.
Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender. Seek refuge in the knowledge of Brahman. They who work selfishly for results are miserable.Speaker: Bhagavad GitaSource: Franny and ZooeyPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You cannot run away from weakness; you must sometime fight it out or perish. And, if that be so, why not now and where you stand?
Speaker: Robert Lewis StevensonPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
Speaker: Eleanor RooseveltPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 7:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The tree that never had to fight
For sun and sky and air and light,
But stood out in the open plain
And always got its share of rain,
Never became a forest king
But lived and died a scrubby thing…
Good timber does not grow with ease,
The stronger wind, the stronger trees.Speaker: Douglas MallochPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
To make a poem of the human conscience, even in terms of a single man and the least of men, would be to merge all epics in a single epic transcending all… To peer at certain moments into the withdrawn face of a human being in the act of reflection, to see something of what lies behind their outward silence, is to discern struggle on a Homeric scale, conflicts of dragons and hydras, aerial hosts as in Milton, towering vistas as in Dante. The infinite space that each man carries within himself, wherein despairingly he contrasts the movements of his spirit with the acts of his life, is an overpowering thing.Speaker: Victor HugoSource: Les MiserablesPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your own actions. All life is an experiment.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!