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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

All great things are done for their own sake.

I always entertain great hopes.

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

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.

The fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day - for burning fire-crackers!!!

I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way.

Writing ... is the great invention of the world.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself, and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

In great contests, each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.