Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

The day you are content, you will stop growing.

There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.

Many Czech people are very talented. They can do many things, but when they get to a certain level, they are satisfied. I am not like that, thank God.

Even if we had the No. 1 video on MTV, and we had money and everything else, I think we'd always have more to do. I don't ever want to wake up in the morning and say, 'What are we gonna do today?' I'm afraid of that. I don't ever want to wake up and feel like we've conquered.

I don't see I'll ever arrive at the point where I'll say, 'Lance old boy, you've arrived at success.' There's no question about it. Once you get to the point where you've arrived at a station called success, you get complacent and lethargic. Those goals you set keep changing. But it's not a ruthless sort of thing.

I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

I don't want to be complacent.

Without aspirations for a better existence, you're stuck in the mud and going nowhere.

Your life is big. Keep reaching.

Personally, I've decided to stop evolving.

If you felt like you've done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it's probably time to hang up your spurs because there's not much else to do.

To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.'

I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied.

Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.

To me there's a difference between success and satisfaction. A lot of people have success and no satisfaction. I'm after satisfaction. I

He that studies his content, wants it.

Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

You can determine what your future holds based on how much time and energy you spend working on yourself now. Find out what it is you want, and go after it as if your life depends on it. Why? Because it does.

Most people achieve their goals and are like, "Is this all there is?" We are supposed to keep growing so we have something to get. What we get never makes us happy. You play yourself when you forget that.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.