From Basho: “No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.”
Tag Archives: motivation
Quote of the day 07/04/25
From Thomas Paine: “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.”
Quote of the day 06/30/25
From the Dhammapada: “He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot—him I call a real driver: other people are merely holding the reins.”
Quote of the day 06/13/25
From the Fo-pen-hing-tsih-king: “All men should cultivate a fixed and firm determination, and vow that what they once undertake they will never give up.”
Quote of the day 04/17/25
From William Wordsworth: “To begin, begin.”
Quote of the day 03/05/25
From Francis Bacon: “He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”
Quote of the day 02/28/25
From Francis Bacon: “There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.”
Quote of the day 02/26/25
From Francis Bacon: “If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.”
Quote of the day 01/24/25
From Marcus Aurelius: “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Quote of the day 01/18/25
From R H. Blyth: “Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, but appropriate actions in an imperfect one.”
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