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• If you are planning for a year, plant rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a century, give the right type of education to the young. – Chinese Proverb 

• A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness. I am not free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and oppressor are robbed of their humanity. - Nelson Mandela

• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question. – Shell Oil Company Advertisement.

• A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness. I am not free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and oppressor are robbed of their humanity. - Nelson Mandela

• When you finally have the pleasure of saying the things you mean to say it in the moment you meant to say it, remorse inevitably follow. – You’ve got mail.

• We came to realize that hate is an acid that eats away not the person hated, but the one who hates. 

• A problem, at its core, is really just an opportunity to learn and explore." --Stephen Coleman

• Answer the door when opportunity knocks.

• Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror. 

• Before you critique another’s behaviour, list five positive things about that person. 

• We should accept blame as much as fame. 

• Think of work as an adventure and instill a sense of exploration in others.

• Remember that silent and listen contain the same letters. 

• What others tell you is only the tip of an iceberg.

• The art of persuasion begins with an open mind and open ears, not an open mouth.

• Inside every person are seeds of greatness; your task is to cultivate them.

• Good leaders are like baseball umpires: they go practically unnoticed when doing their job right. 

• Team means: Together Everyone Achieves More.

• Never argue with a customer who wants a refund or an exchange.

• Customer service is ether good or bad. There is no in-between.

• The best people found a middle position where they were neither overwhelmed by their feelings nor estranged from them. That was the most difficult position of all, and the precise balance – neither too detached nor too caring – was something few learned. – Michael Crichton

• I don’t see my life so well. I make mistakes and screw up, I do things I regret. I say things I wish had not said, a lot of I don’t see any good company out. I think people are doing the best they can. 

• Everybody has an ego and that should be respected by all. 

• The best strategy with a problem was to act if you have control over it and could change the course. That will enable you to stay in change in your own life. 

• Trust your instincts. If it feels good, don’t let others discourage you. If it feels bad, bail out - Forrest Gump 

• I feel different only because I had shifted perspectives. Each shift in perspectives was accompanied by a total change in my attitudes, my physiology, my behaviour, and my emotion. I was immediately and wholly modified by each new perspective that I adopted. – Michael Crichton

• I am normally a lonely person, but I would not humble to say that I have a good great felicity. And here am I like a ship that is carrying cargo that haven’t reached any port. But until it does I will be seeking. Although we retrace our route exactly, I am surprised by how different the views appear on the way back; any route looks different going and coming. But in my part it is my own sense of having succeeded in climbing. I feel different. 

• For to be free  is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhance the freedom of others.

• After climbing a great hill one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. - Nelson Mandela

• No one knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it’s lowest ones. 

• Nothing is more dehumanizing that the absence of human companionship. 

• Experience is the foundation of leadership and that obligation to the people take precedence over loyalty to an individual. 

• You cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgments, not till he has shown his colours, ruling the people, making laws, experience, there is the lest. 

• Liberty is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. – Animal farm, George Orwell

• We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause. – Jose Narosky

• The ideal woman for me is one with whom I can cry. – Enzy Biagi

• If we can ever make red tape nutritional, we can feed the world. – Robert M. Schaeberle

• Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. – Sid Caesar

• A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad. – Arnold H. Glasgow

• It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. – Joseph Joubert

• Goodness is the only investment that never fails. – Henry D. Thoreau

• Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you opportunity to commit more. – Mark Twain

• The reality of a place is not merely what its people remember of it. 

• Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance. – Jon Franklin

• Do not the most moving moments our lives find us all without words? – Marcel Marceau

• The mark of a true professional is giving more than you get. – Robert Kirby

• A man’s judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions. – Raymond Spruance

• In life, as in football game, the principle to follow is: hit the line hard. – Theodore Roosevelt

• Nothing can make rain seem wetter than a holiday afternoon.

• Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. – Libbie Fudim

• Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. – William A. Ward

• The most important political office is that of private citizen. – Louis Brandeis

• If you don’t, someone else will – and sooner than you might think. – Joyce Brothers

• Exercise dissipates tension, and tension is the enemy of serenity. 

• Man’s goodness is a flame  that can be hidden, but never extinguished. 

• Give employees some breathing room. Be invisible one day every other week.

• Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Heiler Killer.

• Worry is the greatest cause of tension, and the greatest cause of worry is procrastination, the things we should have done but didn’t do.

• Always look people in the face when you speak to them, for then you can tell whether they are with you or against you. 

• I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. – Thomas Edison.

• It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. – Antioniede Exupery. 

• Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence, it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned. 

• Silence is golden when you cannot think of a good answer. – Muhammad Ali Clay

• There are three groups of people who spend others money: children, thieves and politicians, all of them need supervision. 

• Lying is easy, truth is complex. – Judging Amy 

• Women have tolerated miserable sexual relationships, faked orgasms, and generally kept quiet about their needs, all in the name of romantic love. – Eleanor Stephens

• Beauty of a wife depends on her kindness. – Maldivian proverb. 

• Try hard to win, expect not to win. - Michael Faraday

• Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know when you will get it. – Forrest Gump. 

• Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." --Abraham Lincoln

• If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change.  Michael Jackson, Man in the Mirror

• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we've already done. -  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself." Louis Nizer

• Don't frown because you never know who will fall in love with your smile.

• Everybody has a right, but what often done is wrong.

• The study of history offers no manual  of instructions that can be applied automatically, history teachers by analogy shedding their light on the likely consequences must determine what circumstances are in fact comparable. – Henry Kissenger.

• You never know a person until you wear his shoes and walk around him. – Harper Lee

• True beauty extends from what is seen physically to intentions, considerations and actions

• Making time for one another, perhaps just being alone together, recharges your emotional batteries and enables you to cope with the demands of parenthood – Penny Stanway 

• In Business, to be successful, project an image of success at all times - American Beauty

• Don't be surprised at what people can do, when they have to - Jurassic Park III

• We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors. - Lyndon B. Johnson

• You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. 

• An educated person will glow even at garbage. - Maldivian Proverb 

• Like a ten-speed bike, most of us have gears we do not use - Charles Schulz

• We may all have come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. - Martin Luther King Jr.

• If you have much, give your wealth; If you have little, give your heart." -- Arab proverb

• Give a man a fish and feed for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime - Chinese Proverb.

• Don't judge a book by its cover. - English proverb 

• We must be authors of the history of our age. - Madeleine Albright

• Choose your socks by their color and your friends by their character. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense. Choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable. - Unknown

• Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

• Your children need your presence more than your presents. - Jesse Jackson

• Education is an asset no man can take away - George Eliot, Middle March

• An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin

• Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. - Vernon Saunders Law

• For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going. - Martin Luther King Jr.

• Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope and, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. - Robert F. Kennedy

• He who opens a school door, closes a prison. - Victor Hugo

• Things turn out the best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. - John Wooden

• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Lao Tze

• My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. - Indira Gandhi

• Consider the postage stamp: Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. - Josh Billings

• Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood. - Leonardo da Vinci

• Do not choose your wife at a dance, but on the field among the harvesters. - Czech Proverb

• Beware of little expenses; a small leak can sink a great ship. - Benjamin Franklin

• Stupid is what stupid does - Forrest Gump

• War generates meanness, sows hatred through fear that the other, by virtue of his happiness, freedom and development, limits or obliterate one's happiness, freedom and development. - Leopoldo Zea, Mexico

• To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. 

• Every story has three sides: yours, mine and the facts.

• I want you to think of your life as an hour glass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hour glass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck without impairing the hour glass. You and I and everyone else are like this hour glass. When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel that we must accomplish that day, but if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, as do the grains of sand passing through the narrow neck of the hour glass, then we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure. - A US Army doctor. 

• Life seemed so full of possibilities beyond what often considered to be normal. 

• Titanic was not just a romantic movie for us. But it was a graphic depiction of the possible fate we may face in the future. - Maumoon Abdul-Gayoom on the sea level rise impact on the Maldives. 

• There are two kinds of boys; those who want to be astronomers and those who want to be astronauts. The astronomer being intelligent gets to study these amazing things from a place of complete safety. But he never goes to space. It’s the difference between imagining and seeing, and be able to touch them - Jurassic Park III

• What is so amazing about humankind: they loose their health to gain wealth, when they do they spend to gain health; some people live as if they are never going to die; and they die as if they never lived. Some people worry about their future so much they forget their present, and they neither gain their present nor their future. - Socrates. 

• There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent - Leo Tolstoy

• If you want to help your mother sweep, always remove the dirt under the rug - A four year old kid, Kids say darndest things. 

• You can't expect an empty bag to standup straight. - Benjamin Franklin

• Managing only for profit is like playing tennis with your eye on the scoreboard and not on the ball. 

• It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. - Father Keller

• When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington.

• I have not failed. I've just found new 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas Alva Edison.  

• An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

• Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante

• The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein 

• I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognise that which I have the power to change. - Liv Ullmann

• You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on. - Steve Jobs

• Life is easier than you think. All you have to do is accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, bear the intolerable and be able to smile at anything.  

• One of the wonder-filled characteristics of human beings is their power to turn a minus into a plus. - Alfred Adler 

• Chaos in the midst of chaos is not funny, but chaos in the midst of order is funny. - Steve Martin

• Male friends do not always face each other, they stand side by side, facing the world. - Carolyn Heilburn, Writing a women's life. 

• It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.  

• Life is a mixture of living and longing, learning and growing, with loving and laughing filling in the gaps in between. - Megan. 

• Do the very best you can; and then put up your old umbrella and keep the rain of criticism from running down the back of your neck. - Dale Carnegie 

• You work so hard in life to get something and when you finally get it, you realise that you don't need it. 

• A false hope is better than no hope at all. - Jameel

• We come to love not by finding perfection, but by learning to see imperfection perfectly.