"All want power, but few will wait..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda
All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves.
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“If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature.”
“Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.”
“An allopath comes and treats cholera patients and gives them his medicines. The Homeopath comes and gives his medicines and cures perhaps more than the allopath does because the Homoeopath does not disturb the patients but allows the nature to deal with them.”
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“Don't allow yourself to be upset and disturbed. Hold your peace because without it you have no power.”
“When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.”
“The truth is that even in the information age, information is not enough. if all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our "dream life" now. Action is what unites every great success. Action is what produces results. Knowledge is only potential power until it comes into the hands of someone who knows how to get himself to take effective action. In fact, the literal definition of the word "power" is "the ability to act."”
More on Patience
“Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!”
“To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.”
“Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.”