20+ Best Reflections Quotes by Idries Shah

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.

No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble.

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly, offering opportunities for personal development.

If you are humble, it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

No practice exists in isolation.

Virtually all organizations known to you work largely by means of your greed.

Remedy your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

Effort makes some great men famous.Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

It has truly been said that Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.