“To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.”

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Either push your limits or die.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn’t keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.

As you think, so shall you become.

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow – you are not understanding yourself.

When one has no form, one can be all forms.

Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.

Be like water making its way through cracks.

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.

Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.

Beginning, before it becomes a historical event, is the supreme capacity of man; politically, it is identified with man’s freedom. ‘That a beginning be made man was created’ said Augustine. This beginning is guaranteed by each new birth; it is indeed every man.

It is all one to me where I begin; for I shall come back again there.

As you take a few minutes each day to quiet your mind, you will discover a nice benefit: you’re everyday, ordinary life will begin to seem far more extraordinary.

Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.