Meditation Quotes

If your compassion does not include yourself,

it is incomplete.

Great dreams of great dreamers

are always transcended.

Complaining is not a strategy.

You have to work with the world as you find it.

Absorb what is useful,

discard what is not,

add what is uniquely your own.

I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land.

You,

who have it to see,

welcome it—and forget not those who have fallen during the night.

Don’t be afraid to fail,

be afraid not to try.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good,

then you should go do something else wonderful.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,

and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Point your toes!

No distance of place or

lapse of time can lessen

the friendship of those

who are thoroughly

persuaded of each

other's worth.

If you think your teacher is tough,

wait until you get a boss.

Don’t tell me what you value.

Show me your budget,

and I’ll tell you what you value.

Dreams are worth pursuing,

even when the odds are against you.

Character is what you are in the dark.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward,

and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

Speak only that which will bring you honor.

A doctor can bury his mistakes,

but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Fashion is the adornment of the soul;

it reveals one’s character and taste.

The more a thing tends to be permanent,

the more it tends to be lifeless.