It is the cheerful mind that is persevering. It is the strong mind that hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.” 

“In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. ” 

“In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path” 

“The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.” 

“All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you.” 

“The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.” 

“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak” 

“Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.” 

“Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ” 

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. ” 

“Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.” 

“They alone live, who live for others.” 

“Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.” 

“All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.” 

“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.” 

“Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.” 

“Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.” 

“The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.” 

“Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.” 

“Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.” 

“Was there ev“Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!” er a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!” 

“We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.” 

“Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.” 

“Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.” 

“Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.” 

“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.” 

“A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.” 

“Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.” 

“beleive in yourself and the world will be at your feet” 

“Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.” 

“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.” 

“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.” 

“The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of religion, it is true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.” 

“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.” 

“The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.” 

“Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.” 

“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” 

“How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.” 

“The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.” 

“Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.” 

“All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.” 

“Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.” 

“Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.” 

“The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.” 

“Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.”