Great Quotes

Let those who desire Buddhahood not train in many Dharmas but only one. Which one? Great compassion. Those with great compassion possess all the Buddha's teaching as if it were in the palm of their hand.

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.

A person becomes great not be sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. Can a crow become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building?

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

For one who has abandoned craving and is free from grasping, who knows languages and their interpretations, the combinations of the letters and their order before and after, this is the final birth. The one is called the Great Being, the Great Sage.

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Of all crimes the worstIs to steal the gloryFrom the great and brave,Even more accursedThan to rob the grave.

I always entertain great hopes.

All great things are done for their own sake.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.