• We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work.

• Do one thing at a time and while doing it put

your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all
else.
• Let not a ripple conquer the
mind.......................................
BE ‘UNATTACHED’; let things work; let brain-centers
work; work incessantly, but let not a ripple conquer the
mind. Work as if you were a stranger in this land, a
sojourner; work incessantly, but do not bind yourselves;
bondage is terrible.
• WE SHALL HAVE TO WORK, GIVING UP
ALTOGETHER ALL DESIRE FOR RESULTS. People
will call us both good and bad. BUT WE SHALL
HAVE TO WORK LIKE LIONS, KEEPING THE
IDEAL BEFORE US, without caring whether “the wise
ones praise or blame us”.
• What is the purpose of life?
Work, work, for to work only for the good of others is life.
• When you are doing any work, do not think of anything
beyond. Do it as worship as the highest worship, and devote
your whole life to it for the little being.
• It is the worker who is attached to the results that
grumbles abut the nature of the duty which has
fallen to his lot; to the unattached worker all
duties are equally good, and form efficient
instrument with which selfishness and sensuality
may be killed, and the freedom of the soul
secured.
• Think that the whole work is upon your
shoulders.
• Do not give up the world; live in the world,
imbibe its influences as much as you can; but if
it be for your own enjoyment’s sake, work not at
all.
• Do not fly away from the wheels of the world-
machine, but stand inside it and learn the secret
of work. Through proper work done inside, it is
also possible to come out.
• Stop not to look for name, or fame, or any such
nonsense. Throw self overboard and work.
• Work in harmony.
• Work on with all energy.
• Go on working.
• Have patience and work.
• Hold yourself as a witness and go on working.
• The calmer we are the less disturbed our nerves,
the more shall we love and the better will our
work be.
• Have faith that you are all, my brave lads, born
to do great things! Let not the barks of puppies
frighten you------------------no, not even the
thunder bolts of heaven-------------------but stand
up and work!
• Work, work-------------------conquer all by your
love!
• Arise, ye mighty one, and be strong! Work on
and on, struggle on and on!
• The Lord has hidden Himself best and His work
is best; so he who hides himself best,
accomplishes most.
• Work hard. Be holy and pure and the fire will
come.
• Our best work and our greatest influence is
when we are without a thought of self.
• We need a heart to feel, a brain to conceive, and
a strong arm to do the work.
• Work on! Hold on! Be brave! Dare anything and
everything.
• Patience and steady work----------this is the
only work.
• Let us work without desire for name or fame
or rule over the others. Let us be free from
the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and
anger.
• You work best when you work for others.
• I shall work incessantly until I die; and even after
death I shall work for the good of the world.
Truth is infinitely more weighty than untruth;
 so is goodness. If you possess these, they will
make their way by sheer gravity.
• Do not be anxious, do not be in a hurry. Slow,
persistent and silent work does everything.
• If you are poor, work. If you are rich, work. If
you are burdened with un-seemingly unfair
responsibilities, work. If disappointments come,
work. If sorrow overwhelms you and loved ones
seem not true, work. If health is threatened,
work. When dreams are shattered and hope
seems dead, work. Work as if your life is in peril.
Its really is. No matter what ails you, work. Work
faithfully. Work in faith. Work is the great
remedy available for both mental and physical
afflictions.
• "To work you have the right, but not to the fruits
thereof" (Gita, 2.47). We can train ourselves to know
and to practice that, says the Karma Yogi. When the
idea of doing good becomes a part of our very being,
then we will not seek for any motive outside.
Class on Karma Yoga. New York, 1896. Complete Works,
1:116.
• Do not fly away from the wheels of the world-machine, but stand
inside it and learn the secret of work. Through proper work done
inside, it is possible to come out. Through this machinery itself is
the way out.
• Karma Yoga is a method of purifying the mind through work. ...
All fear and all desire to enjoy here or hereafter must be
banished for ever by the Karma Yogi. The karma without desire of
return will destroy the selfishness, which is the root of all
bondage. The watchword of the Karma Yogi is "not I, but Thou,"
and no amount of self-sacrifice is too much for such a person.
• Work is a part of nature's foundation, and work always goes on.
Those who believe in God understand this better, because they
know that God is not such an incapable being as will need our
help. Although this universe will go on always, our goal is
freedom, our goal is unselfishness. According to Karma Yoga,
that goal is to be reached through work.
• Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then
alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the
real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self,
forget it; just let God work, it is His business.
• Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to
others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating
our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.
• Do you think these sannyasi children of Sri
Ramakrishna are born to simply to sit under trees
lighting dhuni-fires? Whenever any of them will take
up some work, people will be astonished to see their
energy. Learn from them how to work.
• Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were
after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are
those who can convert every work into one that suits
their taste. No work is petty. Everything in this world
is like a banyan-seed, which, though appearing tiny as a
mustard-seed, has yet the gigantic banyan tree latent
within it. He indeed is intelligent who notices this and
succeeds in making all work truly great…………….
• Great work requires great and persistent effort for a
long time. … Character has to be established through a
thousand stumbles.
• It is only work that is done as a free-will offering to
humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any
binding attachment.
• Look here--we shall die! Bear this in mind always, and
then the spirit within will wake up. Only then will
meanness vanish from you, practicality in work will
 come, you will get new vigor in mind and body, and
those who come in contact with you will also feel that
they have really got something uplifting from you.
• Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does
not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection
comes through selfless work.
• Put God behind everything—human beings, animals,
food, and work. Make this a habit.
• The less passion there is, the better we work. The
calmer we are, the better for us and the more the
amount of work we can do. When we let loose our
feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves,
disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.
• Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only
achieve success in it but through their absorption in that
they also realize the supreme truth—Brahman. Those
who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help
from God.
• To succeed, you must have tremendous
perseverance, tremendous will. “I will
drink the ocean”, says the persevering soul;
“at my will mountains will crumble up”.
Have that sort of energy, that sort of will;
work hard, and you will reach the goal.
• We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work.
And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to
one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the
Light.
• What about this marvelous experience of standing
alone, discarding all help, breasting the storms of life,
of working without any sense of recompense, without
any sense of putrid duty, and of working a whole life,
joyful, free -- not goaded on to work like slaves by false
 human love or ambition? Nature grinds all of us. Keep
count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run,
nature did her work through you, and when you die
your body will make other plants grow. Yet we think all
the time that we are getting pleasure ourselves. Thus the
wheel goes round.
• What the world wants is character. The world is in need
of those whose life is one burning love--selfless. That
love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Awake, awake, great souls! The world is burning in
misery. Can you sleep? Work unto death--I am with
you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you.
This life comes and goes--wealth, fame, enjoyments are
only of a few days. It is better, far better, to die on the
field of duty, preaching the truth than to die like a
worldly worm. Advance!
• Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really
surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose
mind has been purified by selfless work.
• Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the
same time with the tenderness of a flower.
• Work unto death—I am with you, and when I am
gone, my spirit will work with you.
• Your country requires Heroes; Be Heroes! Your duty is
to go on working, and then every thing will follow of
itself.
• Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule,
opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think
ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
• Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were
after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those
 who can convert every work into one that suits their
taste.
• Great work requires great and persistent effort for a
long time. … Character has to be established through a
thousand stumbles.
• Work, work, work - let this be your motto.
• None can help you, help yourself; work out your own
salvation.
• He works best who works without any motive,
neither for money, nor for fame, nor for anything
else.
• Put yourself to work, and you will find such
tremendous power coming to you that you will feel it
hard to bear.
• Readiness to jump into the fire………………
• The watchword of all well-being, of all moral
good, is not ‘I’ but ‘Thou’. Who cares whether
there is a heaven or a hell, who cares if there is a
soul or not, who cares if there is an unchangeable
or not? Here is the world, and it is full of misery.
Go out into it as Buddha did, and struggle to
lessen it or die in the attempt. Forget
yourselves; this is the first lesson to be learnt,
whether you are a theist or an atheist, whether
you are an agnostic or a Vedantist or a Christian
or a Mohammedan.
• Plunge in! Do the duty at hand.
• Let us be brave. KNOW THE TRUTH AND PRACTISE
THE TRUTH. THE GOAL MAY BE DISTINCT, BUT
 AWAKE, ARISE, AND STOP NOT TILL THE GOAL IS
REACHED.
• You have to plunge in and work, without thinking of
the result.
• Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go
beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes
of you.
• Your duty is to go on working, and then everything
will follow of itself.
• Slow but sure.
• We speak of many things parrot-like, but never do
them; speaking and not doing has become a habit with
us. What is the cause of that? Physical weakness. This
sort of weak brain is not able to do anything. We must
strengthen it. First of all our young men must be strong.
Religion will come afterwards. You will be nearer to
Heaven through football than through a study of the
Gita. You will understand Gita better with your biceps,
your muscles, a little stronger. You will understand the
mighty genius and the mighty strength of Krishna better
with a little of strong blood in you. You will understand
the Upanishads better and the glory of the Atman when
your body stands firm upon your feet and you feel
yourselves as men.
• What is now wanted is a combination of the
greatest heart with the highest intellectuality, of
infinite love with the infinite knowledge.
• Life is short: Give it up to a Great cause. Arise!
awake! and stop not till the goal is reached.
• Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on
in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
• Do not search for God in obscure places, for God
is there in front of you in millions forms. He who
loves creation is serving God…………….Throw
away the paraphernalia of worship! Go out and
worship man, for God has appeared in the form
of man, and to worship man is to serve man and
to serve is to toil and labour.
• Work on with a heart.
• Lay off our refusal to strive and conquer the material
world, our refusal to work hard. This desire to strive, to
prosper was what we lacked and had perhaps lacked
throughout our history. It was but for this desire to
strive and prosper, that Europe had encompassed the
whole world. We need that striving, we need that love
for freedom, we need that quality of self-reliance, we
need unassailable patience, we need skill, that
impregnable sense of unity, that striving for
improvement, a new spirit, which will stop us from
looking back and will make us look ahead. We need
these qualities in our blood-stream throb ling in every
vein of our bodies.
• We are everything, ready to do everything, we
can do everything, and man must do everything.
• Every work should be made thorough.
• Be content to work---------------and, above all, be true to
yourself.
• Now, do not talk; work, work, work!
• Get up, and put your shoulders to the wheel.
• No great things were ever done without great
labour.
• You must be ready to plunge into fire------------------
then will work be done.
• The true hero works in silence.
• Whatever you do let that be your worship for the
time.
• We must all work incessantly.
• Idleness won’t do.
• Off with laziness.
• Give up jealousy and conceit. Learn to work unitedly
for others. This is the great need of our country.
• Flying from work is never the way to find peace.
• Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the
perfectly unselfish will and work on.
• None of us can get anything other than what
we fix our hearts upon.
• Appreciation or no appreciation, sleep not, slacken not.
• The man who is pure and who dares, does all
things.
• Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. Never
mind these failures, these little backslidings;
hold the ideal a thousand times; and if you fail a
thousand times make the attempt once more.
• I have experienced even in my insignificant life
that good motives, sincerity and infinite love can
conquer the world. One single soul possessed of
these virtues can destroy the dark design of
millions of hypocrites and brutes.
• Purity, patience, and perseverance overcome all
obstacles.
• Refer UNSELFISHNESS; LOVE LOVE
LOVE; THINKING; LOVE; SUCCESS;
• Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and
an all conquering will.
• Accept the beneficial, discard the pleasure.
• The highest man cannot work, for in them there is no
attachment.
• Take heart and work.
• Doing good is not always smooth!
• The true hero works in silence.
• Work for work’s sake.
• Work of your own free will, not from duty.
• Take courage and work on.
• I want my work to be quick like lightening, and firm as
adamant.
• Patience and steady work-------------this is the only way.
• Too much sentiment hurts work.
• Some would call you a saint, some a Chandala; some a
lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work
without heeding either.
• We want infinite energy, infinite zeal,
infinite courage, and infinite patience, then
only will great things be achieved.
• Live for an ideal, and leave no place in the mind
for anything else.
• Keep the ideal in view and work towards it.
• Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous
energy, and above all, perfect obedience-----------
 these are the only traits that lead to individual
and national regeneration.
• Work out the salvation of this land and of the whole
world, each of you thinking that the entire burden is on
your shoulders.
• Work through freedom! Work through love!
The word “love” is very difficult to
understand; love never comes until there is
freedom. There is no true love possible in
the slave.
• Work on as if on each of you depended the whole work.
• Where is no thought, there will be no work.
• The man who gives way to anger, or hatred or any other
passion cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces,
and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving,
equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest
amount of work.
• Now, work work work.
• Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy;
to work, in the fullness of strength!
• Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are
the mothers of great deeds. Onward for ever!
• Work on, the best way you can.
• No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is
through Love, a passion for Truth, and tremendous
energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.
• We must persevere until the goal is reached.
• Great things can be done by great sacrifices
only.
• We must have plodding industry and perseverance.
 • Be unselfish even unto death, and work.
• Work, work, work---------------------I care for nothing
else. Work, work, work, even unto death.
• Learn with all devotion.
• Do not delay a moment. Leave nothing for tomorrow.
Get ready for the final event, which may overtake you
immediately, even now.
• My children must be ready to jump into fire, if needed,
to accomplish their work.
• Throw the ideas broadcast, and let the result take care of
itself.
• GREAT WORK------------Who does it
Was it ever in the history of the world that any great work
was done by the rich? It is the heart and the brain that do it
ever and ever and not the purse.
• Never turn back to see the result of what you have
done.
• Take courage and work on. Patience and steady
work----------------this is the only way. Go on;
remember---------patience and purity and courage and
steady work. So long as you are pure, and true to your
principles, you will never fail.
• O hero, awake, and dream no more.
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• Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were
after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are
those who can convert every work into one that suits
their taste. No work is petty. Everything in this world
is like a banyan-seed, which, though appearing tiny as a
mustard-seed, has yet the gigantic banyan tree latent
within it. He indeed is intelligent who notices this and
succeeds in making all work truly great…………….
• Work is a part of nature's foundation, and work always goes on.
Those who believe in God understand this better, because they
know that God is not such an incapable being as will need our
help. Although this universe will go on always, our goal is
freedom, our goal is unselfishness. According to Karma Yoga,
that goal is to be reached through work.
• Give up jealousy and conceit. Learn to work unitedly
for others. This is the great need of our country.
• Whatever you do let that be your worship for the
time.