100 Best Quotes

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

All of us do not have equal talent. But, all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.

Be realistic: plan for a miracle.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

My love, do not ask of me the love I once had for you.

Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact — not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

Peace at home, peace in the world.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Speak, for your lips are free; speak, your tongue is still your own.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature.

What you seek is seeking you.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

All real living is meeting.

We have on this earth that which makes life worth living.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.

Life should be great rather than long.

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

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.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

I raise up my voice — not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.

He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

As many faiths, so many paths.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Don't worry, be happy.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists.

No religion is higher than humanity.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

They are us.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

You can only fight the way you practice.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.