The rivalry is with yourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other. - Luciano Pavarotti
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are. - Luciano Pavarotti
A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid?
Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you, if you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.
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.
Experience is the only teacher we have. we may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth.
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.