Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.
I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
Look at obstacles as stepping stones, not roadblocks.
Dedication and passion will always outshine mere talent.
You don’t have to be perfect; you just have to keep improving.
Your biggest competition is yourself—strive to be better every day.
There are no limits to what you can achieve if you are determined.
Get this in mind early: We never grow up.
In order to win, you must expect to win.
When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it.
Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.
Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.
It's all in the mind, you know.
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?