“Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.”

Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.

I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher. That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear’. Tell this to everybody-‘Have no fear’.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.

Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness

Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

There is no end to the power a man can obtain.

Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.

If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

The earth is enjoyed by heroes”- this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.

Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.

If you only stand for something until it gets uncomfortable, then you never really stood at all.

To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

For the heart that needs a dose of courage don’t run, don’t hide, don’t fear, hold on.

When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.

Now is the time for guts and guile.

Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don’t have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.

Courage is the commitment to being without any guarantee of success.