Precept & Practice – JANUARY 20 – Unhurried Work

Let us perform our duties to the best of our ability and never think of the results.   The results will come to us.   If we are attached to them and worry about them, we shatter our nerves and do not gain anything;  but if, after performing our duties with our best ability, we exercise patience, the result is bound to come,

Swami Ashedânanda

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunity for good deeds is renewed for you day by day.   The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

Dean Farrar

When we go about our work earnestly and perseveringly, it often happens that although we have to tack about again and again, we get ahead of those who are helped by wind and tide.

Goethe

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From the Introduction to Precept and Practice

The kindly welcome given to my other little books, ‘Being and Doing’ and ‘Character and Conduct,’ must be my excuse for adding another collection of extracts to the number now in circulation.

The quotations are gathered from the books of many earnest thinkers, and deal with Life in all its length and breadth, with ourselves, our characters, our plain unvarnished faults and weaknesses, our often untoward circumstances, and with all that drags us down;-  with our purposes, our religion, our love and friendships, and with all that uplifts us;-  with our relation to others, our influence and responsibilities, and finally with those stages of our journey which bring us to the Road’s Last Turn and to the Silent Land.

CONSTANCE  M. WHISHAW