top of page
"Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Effort quotes

"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."

"You cannot cross large rivers without building bridges."

"Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, your efforts will bring in losses."

"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."

"It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was."

"While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort."

"There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer."
Explore more quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not other, it is your own mind."

"why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives."

"When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes. Share your problems only with the Divine, not with anyone else, as that will only increase the problems. Share your joy with everyone.Listen to others; yet do not listen. If your mind gets stuck in their problems, not only are they miserable, but you also become miserable."

"Wise is the one who learns from another's mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them."

"Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thrice. It does not matter. Keep moving ahead. People take vows never to commit mistakes again. Breaking the vows makes it worse. Surrendering is better."

"Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma).One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa. Rely on your Self, self-reliance."

"Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does not care whether others idealize them or not. Everyone needs to see that you not only teach human values but you live them. It is unavoidable sometimes you will be idealized -- it is better for children to have a role model, or goal, because then the worshipful quality in them can dawn."
bottom of page