What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some mark behind. Otherwise, where is the difference between you and the trees and stones? They too come into existence, decay and die.

Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature.

Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.