He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. Teach men of the strength that is already within them.

The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practised, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves. Born with the consciousness that they were to be great, they became great.

We can see that all the difference between man & man is owing to the existence & non-existence of faith in himself. Faith in ourselves will do everything. I have experienced it in my own life, and am still doing so; & as I grow older, that faith is becoming stronger and stronger.

Make your nerves strong. What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mothers of great deeds.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved.

It is child's talk that a man dies and goes to heaven. We never come nor go. We are where we are. All the souls that have been, are, and will be, are on one geometrical point.

There is an ocean of difference between idleness and renunciation.

Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to be brave, try to be sympathising.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it be after his heart. But the intelligent man is he who can convert every work into one that suits his taste. No work is pretty.

Do not fly away from the wheels of the world - machine, but stand inside it and learn the secret of work.

When you help a poor man, do not feel the least pride. That is worship for you, and not the cause of pride.

Wealth goes, beauty vanishes, life flies, powers fly - but the Lord abideth for ever, love abideth for ever.

People will call us both good or bad. But we shall have to work like lions keeping the ideal before us.

If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.