Gregory of Nazianzus Quotes

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

Allah does not change social conditions until people change their attitude.

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.

I've done everything I can in my life to be the best person I can be, and I can look in the mirror and say that.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly straightforward and open, rises above the superficialities of conventional behavior, and refuses to be satisfied with the petty or commonplace.

Character is the result of two great forces: the initial force which the Creator gave it when He called the man into being; and the force of all the external influence and culture that mold and modify the development of a life.

We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.