Quotes
A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.— Mohandas Gandhi
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.— Helen Keller
A man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.— Christian D. Larson
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.— Conversations with God
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. Know that there is no darkness around us. Take the hands away and there is the light which was from the beginning. Darkness never existed, weakness never existed. We who are fools cry that we are impure.— Swami Vivekananda
All things are possible until they are proved impossible — and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.— Pearl S. Buck
An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.— Chanakya
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.— Mohandas Gandhi
As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.— Ramakrishna
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions — Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.— Chanakya
Change before you have to.— Jack Welch
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.— Mark Twain
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.— George Edward Woodberry
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.— Swami Vivekananda
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not any man’s greed.— Mohandas Gandhi
Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, there is one religion “human religion” but any number of faiths.— Mohandas Gandhi
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.— Aristotle
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.— Anonymous
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.— Aristotle
God does not reveal Godself to Godself from or through outward observation, but through inward experience. And when inward experience has revealed Godself, outward observation is not necessary. And if outward observation is necessary, inward experience is not possible.— Conversations with God
I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Goodness is Virtue. Cultivate Virtue in yourself, in the family, in the village, in the nation and in the universe.— Tao Te Ching
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.— Aristotle
I have always considered the price of perfection prohibitive and allowed mistakes as a part of the learning process. I prefer a dash of daring and persistence to perfection.— Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire
If you want peace, my child, do not look into anyone’s faults. Look into your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger. The whole world is your own.— Sarada Devi
In a potter’s shop there are vessels of different shapes and forms — pots, jars, dishes, plates, etc., — but all are made of the same clay. So God is one, but He is worshipped in different ages and climes under different names and aspects.— Ramakrishna
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals revolt that they may be superior.— Aristotle
It has been my personal experience that the true flavour, the real fun, the continuous excitement of work lie in the process of doing it rather than in having it over and done with.— Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire
It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.— Christian D. Larson
It is much easier to change what you are doing than to change what another is doing.— Conversations with God
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.— Aristotle
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.— Swami Vivekananda
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.— Aristotle
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.— Aristotle
It takes a wise man to learn from his mistakes, but an even wiser man to learn from others.— Anonymous
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.— Helen Keller
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done.— Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire
Life is not about tomorrow, it is about right now. Life is about how you are currently molding the Energy!— Abraham-Hicks
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.— Khalil Gibran
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.— Mohandas Gandhi
Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it even though he cannot at once reveal himself because of his enormous size.— Albert Einstein
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.— Albert Einstein
Never let school interfere with your education.— Mark Twain
One of the important functions of prayer, I believe, is to act as a stimulus to creative ideas. Within the mind are all the resources required for successful living. Ideas are present in the consciousness, which when released and given scope to grow and take shape, can lead to successful events. God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps to tap and develop these powers.— Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire
One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.— Chanakya
Oneself, indeed, is one’s saviour, for what other saviour would there be? With oneself well controlled one obtains a saviour difficult to find.— Gautama Buddha
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.— Aristotle
Power of love is God. Love for power is Ego.— Swami Sukhabodhananda
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.— Helen Keller
Simple living helps in high thinking and getting mastery over mind and body.— Swami Sivananda
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.— Abraham Lincoln
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you’ll be a success.— Albert Schweitzer
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true knowledge, all else is only a negation of knowledge.— Ramakrishna
The basis of a democratic state is liberty.— Aristotle
The best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are accomplished when you are relaxed and free of doubt.— Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire
The citizen who sees his society’s democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry out is not a patriot but a traitor.— Mark Twain
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter — it’s the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning.— Mark Twain
The fact that you have failed to get the lesser proves conclusively that you deserve the greater.— Christian D. Larson
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.— Elbert Hubbard
The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love.— Conversations with God
The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.— George Bernard Shaw
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them.— Muhammad Yunus
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.— George Bernard Shaw
The wise should learn to accept wisdom from anybody, even from a child. Doesn’t the small nightlamp brighten things which the sun cannot?— Anonymous
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.— William Shakesphere
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.— Swami Vivekananda
Though one should conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, he who conquers his own self, is the greatest of all conquerers.— Gautama Buddha
Truth, purity and unselfishness — wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole world in opposition.— Swami Vivekananda
Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.— Swami Vivekananda
Usually our ciriticism of others is not because they have faults, but because their faults are different from ours.— Anonymous
Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain. Happily the peaceful live, giving up victory and defeat.— Gautama Buddha
Watch your thougts, they become words.— Anonymous
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your desitny.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.— Swami Vivekananda
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.— Aristotle
What you resist persists. What you look at disappears.— Conversations with God
Whether you think you can or think you can’t — you are right.— Henry Ford
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.— Harriet Woods
You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?”— George Bernard Shaw
You should be the change that you want to see in the world.— Mohandas Gandhi
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.— George Bernard Shaw
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