Inspirational quotes

“Is it not a pleasure, having learned something, to try it out at due intervals?”

Confucius

Analects, Book 1 · View source

“When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers.”

Confucius

Analects, Book 7 (Shu Er) · View source

“Sweet are the uses of adversity.”

William Shakespeare

As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1 · View source

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays, First Series — Circles · View source

“Lord, we know what we are but know not what we may be.”

William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5 · View source

“So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Scene 1 · View source

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Gitanjali, poem 35 · View source

“Knowledge is nothing but finding unity in the midst of diversity.”

Swami Vivekananda

The Complete Works, Volume 3 — The Vedanta · View source

“The river and its waves are one surf: where is the difference between the river and its waves?”

Kabir

Songs of Kabir, poem XIV (II.56), translated by Rabindranath Tagore · View source

“Spirits of Truth were the birds that sang, and spirits of Love were the stars that glowed, and spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed.”

Sarojini Naidu

The Golden Threshold — Song of a Dream · View source

“Thy Future calls thee with a manifold sound to crescent honours, splendours, victories vast.”

Sarojini Naidu

The Golden Threshold — To India · View source

“It is not night; it is God’s dawn.”

Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Sandhya: Songs of Twilight — Symbolism · View source