A noble does not need to boast or shout loudly to prove his prowess. He is full of humility and reverence towards his elders. He allows his deeds of valour to speak for themselves and others respect him for it.
Mahabharata
To know the secrets of a person, become like him. A sadhu if he is one. Or a scavenger if he is one.
Upanishads
The Fire God believes that he is all powerful. But even his power to burn comes from the Supreme.
Hinduism
The money that you earn from work gets spent. But the knowledge that you earn from work is yours forever.
Universal Prayers - From Vedas
Thou hast no colour, no form, no weapons, no particular abode. Yet thou revealest Thyself unto Thy devotess in a personal form.
Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram
Salutations to the remover of the distress of those who have taken refuge in Him.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
Om bhandasur endra - nirmukta - sastra pratyastra - varsinyai namah. Salutations to Her who counters by Her own missiles the rain of missiles directed against Her by Bhandasura.
Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya
The best among the intelligent bend the bow of their mental disposition with the bow-string of firm devotion, and having destroyed the enemy of sins with the unfailing arrows of divine contemplatation, become victorious and attain to the undecaying sovereignty of liberation.
Siva Sahasranama Stotram
The Mighty. Om balaviraya namah The destruction of the triple fort took place by the mighty power of Siva.
Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry)
...and the transformation can only be done by a force infinitely greater than your own; it can only be done by being truly like a child in the hands of Divine Mother.
