It is better to perform one's own duties imperfectly than to master the duties of another. By fulfilling the obligations he is born with, a person never comes to grief.
The result of pious action is pure and is said to be in the mode of goodness. But action done in the mode of passion results in misery, and action performed in the mode of ignorance results in foolishness.
Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the self.
The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind. The endeavoring transcendentalists, who are situated in self-realization, can see all this clearly.
You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.
I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than be normal and bitter.
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.