1. What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

2. The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.

3. To laugh often and love much… to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one’s self… this is to have succeeded.

4. A great man is always willing to be little.

5. A man is what he thinks about all day long.

6. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

7. Always do what you are afraid to do.

8. An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

9. As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

10. Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

11. Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

12. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

13. Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

14. Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

15. Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

16. For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

17. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

18. It is not length of life, but depth of life.

19. Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

20. Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

21. Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

22. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

23. Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

24. People only see what they are prepared to see.

25. The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

26. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

27. The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

28. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

29. To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

30. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

31. With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

A Pirali Brahmin from Calcutta, Bengal, Tagore first wrote poems at the age of eight. At the age of sixteen, he published his first substantial poetry under the pseudonym Bhanushingho (”Sun Lion”) and wrote his first short stories and dramas in 1877. In later life Tagore protested strongly against the British Raj and gave his support to the Indian Independence Movement. Tagore’s life work endures, in the form of his poetry and the institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University.

Tagore wrote novels, short stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays on political and personal topics. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are among his best-known works. His verse, short stories, and novels, which often exhibited rhythmic lyricism, colloquial language, meditative naturalism, and philosophical contemplation, received worldwide acclaim. Tagore was also a cultural reformer and polymath who modernised Bengali art by rejecting strictures binding it to classical Indian forms. Two songs from his canon are now the national anthems of Bangladesh and India: the Amar Shonar Bangla and the Jana Gana Mana respectively. (Read more about Rabindranath Tagore at Wikipedia)

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More Robert G. Ingersoll’s Quotes

1. My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

1. Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

2. I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

3. I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

4. If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

5. It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

6. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

7. The only journey is the one within.

8. Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.

Collier was born in St. Louis, Missouri on April 19, 1885. He was the nephew of Peter Fenelon Collier, founder of Collier’s Weekly. He was involved in writing, editing, and research for most of his life. His book, The Secret of the Ages, sold over 300,000 copies during his life. Collier wrote about the practical psychology of abundance, desire, faith, visualization, confident action, and becoming your best.

Robert Collier Publications, Inc., still exists through the efforts of his widow and now his children and grandchildren and now even his great grandchildren. Collier’s Books have recently been brought back to prominence from being referenced in the popular metaphysical movie The Secret. Moreover, Robert Collier’s books have been popular with self help and New thought.

1. If you don’t make things happen then things will happen to you.

2. If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem… break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

3. If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.

4. In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

5. Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.