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Daily
Thoughts to assist in your Daily Struggle for Perfection |
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Daily
Thoughts to assist in your Daily Struggle for Perfection |
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| 1 | ''I
have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant,
and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.'' - Kahlil Gibran |
| 2 | ''Be intent
upon the perfection of the present day.'' - William Law |
| 3 | ''Don't
worry about Perfection. You'll never reach it." - Unknown |
| 4 | ''The highest
reward for service is not what you get for it, but what you become by
it.'' - Jason Gursky |
| 5 | ''Service
to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction
than any other venture of life.'' - Carrie Chapman Catt |
| 6 | ''Be kind,
for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.'' - Philo |
| 7 | ''There
is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed;
but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly
lacking.'' - Bliss Carman |
| 8 | ''If things
are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation
by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the
spirit in which you are rendering it.'' - Roger Babson |
| 9 | ''Understanding
is the willingness to put yourself in another's shoes for the sake of
appreciating that person's experience of the world.'' - Tom Rusk M.D |
| 10 | ''The highest
result of education is tolerance.'' - Helen Keller |
| 11 | ''What is
objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are
extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about
their cause, but what they say about their opponents.'' - Robert Kennedy |
| 12 | ''The measure
of a man is not the number of his servants but in the number of people
whom he serves.'' - Dr. Paul D. Moody |
| 13 | ''I am not
influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish
to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good,
becomes honorable by being necessary.'' - Nathan Hale |
| 14 | ''It is
one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try
to help another without helping himself.'' - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 15 | ''The fundamental
delusion of humanity is to supposed that I am here and you are out there.'' - Yasutani Roshi |
| 16 | ''Everyone
is unique. Compare not yourself with anyone else lest you spoil God's
curriculum.'' - Baal Shem Tov |
| 17 | ''I don't
know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The ones among you
who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.''
- Albert Schweitzer |
| 18 | ''Most of
our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.'' - Marshall McLuhan |
| 19 | ''Look at
the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures.
A man simply cannot conceal himself!'' - Confucius |
| 20 | ''How far
you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate
with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak
and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these.'' - George Washington Carver |
| 21 | ''No folly
is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.'' - Winston Churchill |
| 22 | ''Success
is not measured by the money earned but by the service rendered.'' - Roy L Smith |
| 23 | ''The high
destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.'' - Albert Einstein |
| 24 | ''For anything
worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience,
love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the
gold of real service.'' - John Burroughs |
| 25 | ''Sow good
services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.'' - Madame de Stael |
| 26 | ''Neither
praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate,
firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These
are the true aims and duties of criticism.'' - William Gilmore Simms |
| 27 | ''To be
sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.'' - Ronald Firbank |
| 28 | ''Indiscriminate
study bloats the mind.'' - D. Sutten |
| 29 | ''The nature
of all men is so formed that they see and discriminate in the affairs
of others, much better than in their own.'' - Terence |
| 30 | ''If you
don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then
you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.'' - Dee Hock - Founder and CEO Emeritus - VISA International |
| 31 | ''Be entirely
tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand
at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.'' - Heinrich Heine |
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...
build
on your Perfection
(Excellence is accepted)
to explore
the 7th 
of Ego:
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