Devoted Quote by Agnes Martin

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

— Ramakrishna

Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have…

— Grenville Kleiser

Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice

— Maryam Jameelah

All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do…

— Lydia M. Child

“The only way to go beyond work is through work. It is not that work itself is valuable; we surmount work by work. The…

— Kōbō Abe

All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good veryinadequate to their aspirations. They do so…

— Lydia M Child

The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly…

— Anonymous

There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking…

— Eric Hoffer

The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may…

— Anders Chydenius

Ultimately, work on self is inseperable from work in the world. Each mirrors the other; each is a vehicle for the other. When we…

— Charles Eisenstein

I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and…

— Lewis H. Lapham

“There is even in the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that we call extreme self-seeking is…

— Eric Hoffer