Meister Eckhart Quotes

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.

Dignity increases more easily than it begins.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.

Faith takes root in the insignificant.

We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

While each of us faces enormous challenges every day, it's not the sins we commit that will define us, its how we respond to them.

The virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind. It was the well-earned harvest of many a learned conference, of many a patient lecture, and many a midnight lucubration. At the age of twelve years, he embraced the rigid system of the Stoics, which taught him to submit his body to his mind, his passions to his reason; to consider virtue as the only good, vice as the only evil, all things external as things indifferent.

Redemption implies that your self worth comes at the end. I think it's there from the start. If it's your core values, it's there from day one.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Real religion is about, developing real character; character of compassion, character of humility, the character of determination to grow in all circumstances.

What matters is who we are, not who we beat.

Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order.

A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.

I don't care about a golfer. I don't care about getting better as a golfer. I want to be better as a person.

Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

You plus nothing equals everything.

Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.