You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
— Ramakrishna
As long as I live, so long do I learn.
— Ramakrishna
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
— Swami Vivekananda
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
— Swami Vivekananda
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.
— Swami Vivekananda
Though one should conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, he who conquers his own self, is the greatest of all conquerers.
— Gautama Buddha
Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day’s life of one who is wise and meditative.
— Gautama Buddha
The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.
— Conversations with God
The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love.
— Conversations with God
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. I try to increase the power God has given me to see the best in everything and every one, and make that Best a part of my life.
— Helen Keller
A man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.
— Christian Larson
The fact that you have failed to get the lesser proves conclusively that you deserve the greater.
— Christian Larson
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
— Aristotle
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
— Mohandas Gandhi
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not any man’s greed.
— Mohandas Gandhi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
— Mohandas Gandhi
You should be the change that you want to see in the world.
— Mohandas Gandhi
A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
— Mohandas Gandhi
Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, there is one religion “human religion” but any number of faiths.
— Mohandas Gandhi
If you want peace, my child, do not look into anyone’s faults. Look into your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger. The whole world is your own.
— Sarada Devi
Simple living helps in high thinking and getting mastery over mind and body.
— Swami Sivananda
Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it even though he cannot at once reveal himself because of his enormous size.
— Albert Einstein
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
— Albert Einstein
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter — it’s the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning.
— Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.
— Mark Twain
In a monarchy, the king and his family are the country; in a republic it is the common voice of the people. Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catch-phrases of politicians. Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide it against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country–hold up your head. You have nothing to be ashamed of.
— Mark Twain
Never let school interfere with your education.
— Mark Twain
The citizen who sees his society’s democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry out is not a patriot but a traitor.
— Mark Twain
The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
— George Bernard Shaw
You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?”
— George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
— George Bernard Shaw
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
— George Bernard Shaw
An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.
— Chanakya
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions — Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
— Chanakya
One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.
— Chanakya
I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Goodness is Virtue. Cultivate Virtue in yourself, in the family, in the village, in the nation and in the universe.
— Tao Te Ching
Whether you think you can or think you can’t — you are right.
— Henry Ford
Power of love is God. Love for power is Ego.
— Swami Sukhabodhananda
It takes a wise man to learn from his mistakes, but an even wiser man to learn from others.
— Anonymous
The wise should learn to accept wisdom from anybody, even from a child. Doesn’t the small nightlamp brighten things which the sun cannot?
— Anonymous
Watch your thougts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your desitny.
— Anonymous
Usually our ciriticism of others is not because they have faults, but because their faults are different from ours.
— Anonymous
