Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best read more

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope read more

When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

Death comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Death comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

Every teacher has to learn the lession.

Every teacher has to learn the lession.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

My master's visualizations were so powerful
their condensation into matter was mere signature.
Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The read more

My master's visualizations were so powerful
their condensation into matter was mere signature.
Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path
about his guru Yogananda.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, read more

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.