Devices Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

— Ambrose Bierce

Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself…

— Lord Chesterfield

Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what…

— Joseph Addison

“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

— Plato

“Journey to Enlightenment Emotions must come to the surface to release the past that binds.”

— Dana Dason

“It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring…

— Robert Greene

The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute…

— Samuel Beckett

“From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering but, to my present view, it was a blessing…

— Nikola Tesla

“Undeniably, a worthwhile exercise to pursue is by spending time to extract positives from any situation, immaterial of how dire things may seem in…

— Steven Redhead

With constant practice, one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one’s self useful to…

— Dharma Mittra

“The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one’s emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can successfully step…

— Gary Hopkins