Your country requiresheroes; be heroes; yourduty is to go on working,and then everything willfollow of itself.
The real work is in the practice.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak
In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
Practice makes us what we shall be.
Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and then it is found that the one Self only exists from the highest Being to a blade of grass.
What is meant by cause? Cause is the fine state of the manifested state.
There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
Unity in variety is the plan of the universe.
This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.
Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.
There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.
External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.
Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.
In a difficulty in the company of the central and the instigator, be successful your central.
Be not afraid , for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their ranks have come all the greatest geniuses of the world, and history can only repeat itself. Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work.
Brave, bold people, these are what we want.
The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form which is a mental image.
Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.
Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.
Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.
How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point; that is the secret.
The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal.
There cannot be friendship without equality.
The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth
Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself
Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?
Strength is life, Weakness is death.
No two persons have the same mind or the same body.
Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either.
All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves.
My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent,renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient - good to themselves and the country at large
Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested.
Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some mark behind. Otherwise, where is the difference between you and the trees and stones? They too come into existence, decay and die.
If the poor boy cannot come to education,education must go to him
Whatever you think, that you will be.
None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? Unselfish even unto death, and loving? Then fear not, not even death.
Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end.
Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.
Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.
Consciously or unconsciously, health can be transmitted. A very strong man, living with a weak man, will make him a little stronger, whether he knows it or not.
Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the man who, coming to a mine of diamonds, begins to search for glass beads.
We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men.
Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.
No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . .
The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence
Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
Perfection can be had by everybody.
The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.
Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour, you have had the most beautiful rest you ever had in your life. That is the only way you ever give rest to your system. Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as that.
There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress.
Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.
Attachment comes only where we expect a return.
Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom
One link in a chain explains the infinite chain.
The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.
You may meditate on whatever you like, but I shall meditate on the heart of a lion. That gives strength
Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.
