Quotations, Proverbs and Sayings
Life
Life is mostly froth and bubble.
Two
things stand like stone.
Kindness is another’s trouble.
Courage
in your own.
Life
is a process of self-discovery.
It
is nice to be important. But it is more important to be nice.
Try
making your life into a daring adventure.
Go
out and get what you want out of life.
People
blame circumstances for what they are. To be successful, look for the
circumstances you want. If you cannot find them, make them.
Life
is what we make of it. It is not a rehearsal; it’s the main event.
In
life there are neither rewards nor punishments. There are only circumstances.
Plan
as if we’re going to live forever.
Live
as if you’re going to die tomorrow.
Impose your own term upon your life. If you don’t,
you will have to accept the terms of others.
Interest
Does
dividend, commission mean interest?
Does
curiosity, expectation, excitement mean interest?
Interest means all this and something else. Interest
is that what makes you see, think and feel.
Failure
To
score less, to earn little is not failure.
To
lose, to be defeated is not failure.
Not
to get what you want is not failure.
But learning nothing from all this, is failure.
Be
like a diamond, precious and rare.
Not
like a stone, found everywhere.
Happiness
is a strange thing. The more you give, the more you get.
Its
better to have an open enemy, than a close friend.
Where
there is a will, there is a way.
Where
there is a ‘will’, there are relatives.
(Applicable to present world.)
A
person has right to spend on everything if and only if he earns something.
Good
words cool more than cold water.
Hope
for the best, prepare for the worst.
Smile
is the greatest weapon in the battle of life.
Consider
do not speak. But having spoken, do not evade.
If
you cry for a minute, you lose 60 seconds of joy.
Never
suspect your abilities.
I
was born intelligent. Education spoilt me.
Don’t
avoid pain. Pain is the way to gain.
Don’t
give up even if you die. At least your spirit will survive.
Many
people said that the apple fell to the ground. But Newton was the one who asked,
“why?”
Every advantage has its tax.
Learning
A
field however fertile cannot be fruitful without cultivation; neither can a mind
learning.
Learning
is a risky business.
Adults
learn less than young because they risk less.
It’s
hard to unlearn than to learn.
Learning
is sterile unless it leads to action.
Learn
from many teachers. As a bee takes honey from many flowers.
Feedback
is the key to learning.
The
person too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
We
rarely learn from our successes but we learn from our mistakes.
If
you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure – for the rest
of your life.
Return
from learning should be more earnings.
What
we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
Information
when it is digested becomes knowledge.
Knowledge when it is put to use becomes wisdom.
Life
Accountancy
My
birth is my opening stock.
My
ideas are my assets.
My
views are my liabilities.
Happiness
is my profit.
Sorrow
is my loss.
Heart
is my tired asset.
Duties
are my outstanding expenses.
Friendship
is my hidden adjustment.
Character
is my capital.
Bad
things always get depreciated.
Good
things always get appreciated.
Knowledge
is my investment.
Patience
is my interest.
Mind
is my bank balance.
Thinking
is my current account.
Behavior
is my journal entry.
Aim
is my tall balance sheet.
Death is my closing stock.
Facts
of life
The
best – My today
Hardest
thing to do – To begin
The
greatest handicap – Fear
Easiest
thing to do – To find faults
Most
useless asset – Pride
Most
useful asset – Humility
The
greatest mistake – Giving up
The
greatest stumbling block – Egotism
The
greatest comfort – Work well done
Most
disagreeable person – The complainer
Work
bankruptcy – Loss of enthusiasm
Greatest
need – Common sense
Meanest
feeling – Regret at another’s success
Best
gift – Forgiveness
The
hardest to accept – Defeat
The
greatest moment – Death
The
greatest knowledge – Experience
The
greatest thing – Love
The greatest success – Peace of Mind
I
am not afraid of tomorrow. Because I have seen yesterday and I love today.
Chasing
over impossible, you lose what is possible.
Winners
don’t do different things; they do things differently. – Shiv Khera
A
teacher is one of a kind. He makes brain out of a mind.
At
times it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a
fool; than to open it and remove all their doubts.
A
man may die. Nations may rise and fall. But an idea lives on. Ideas have
endurance without death.
Yesterday
is a cancelled cheque. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is the only cash you
have. So spend it wisely.
Always
forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the
attribute of the strong.
A lamp can never light a lamp unless it continues to
burn its own fame.
Fear is a darkroom where all negatives are developed.
We look before and after a pain for what is not our
sincerest laughter with pain is fought.
Might is Right
According to Edison, Extra ordinary talent is nothing
but two percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration.
To get profit without risk, experience without
danger, and reward without hard work is as impossible as it is to live without
being born.
The real test of power is not the capacity to make
war but to prevent it.
If you would not like to be forgotten as soon as you
are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves.
The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
Character; not brain will count at the crucial
moment.
Some men are born great. Some achieve greatness, and
some have greatness thrust upon them.
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in
health, out of debt and has a clear conscience?
Generally, the theories we believe, we call them
facts and the facts we disbelieve, we call them theories.
A specialist is one who knows everything about
something and nothing about anything else.
The aim of an argument or a discussion should not be
victory but progress.
Miracles do happen; especially when human spirit
takes over.
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Humor is a rubber sword; it allows you to make a
point without drawing blood.
The secret of happiness is to make other believe they
are the cause of it.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the
extent of your own ignorance.
The past is actually happened. But history is only
what someone wrote down.
Half of the harm done in the world is due to people
who want to be important.
When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.
Don’t let your joy turn into sorrow. There is
always a tomorrow…
I expect to pass thorough life but once. If,
therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any
fellow being, let me do it now; For I shall not pass this way again.
The good thing about luck is that it changes one day.
You are not rewarded for having a good brain. You are
rewarded for using it.
Leaders don’t create more followers. They create
more leaders.
Ships are safer in harbour. But they are not meant
for that purpose.
Machines must work; Men must think.
Life’s greatest thrill is tomorrow.
Every stone can be a stepping stone.
Most problems are basically absence of ideas.
Condemn action; not people.
He travels faster who travels alone.
Work smarter; not just harder.
Starve the problems. Feed the opportunities.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Shape up or ship out.
Don’t start something which you cannot stop.
Treat people like winners.
Positive attitude pays.
Problems are only solutions in disguise.
If at first you do succeed, try to hide your
astonishment.
Either find a way or make one.
A boss has to be a good shock-absorber.
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.
Make common sense your best friend.
If you’re sure it is good enough, improve it.
The greatest loss is loss of self-confidence.
Delegate but don’t forget.
Grow antennae not horns.
Needs can be met; greeds never.
Fundamental requirement for success – Humility.
Our attitude determines our attitude.
You become what you think you will.
An error becomes a mistake only when you refuse to
correct it.
You are not ready to live unless you are ready to
die.
Morale makes 3 quarters of a game. The relative
balance of manpower accounts for the remaining quarter.
– Napoleon
Man is neither pulled in from the front nor he is
pushed from behind. Rather he is driven from within.
Many people will not head down the street until all
the lights are green. That’s why they don’t go anywhere.
– Keith Cunningham
Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it.
– Salvador Dali.
Inside a ring or out, ain’t nothing
wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.
– Muhammad Ali.
The only way you can manage change is to create it.
– Peter Drucker.
What’s lasting is not what resists change but what
wisely changes with it. –
Peter Muller.
If you fail to prepare, get prepared to fail.
Siddhuism
If fate throws lemon at you, try to make lemonade. If
it throws dates at you, just open your mouth.
Bad habits cannot be thrown out of a window. They
have to be taken out of the house; one step at a time.
Common sense is the nack of seeing things as they are
and doing things as they ought to be done.
Occasions don’t make you strong or weak. They show
what metal you are made of.
Egg and Ego are not at all good until they are
broken.
Talent is nothing without opportunity.
The problem in life is not how to make life easy but
how to make ourselves strong.
Experience is like a comb that life gives you when
you are bald.
Wickets are like wives - you never know which way
they will turn!
If ifs and buts were pots and pans, there would be no
thinkers!
Statistics are like miniskirts, they reveal more than
what they hide.
Swami
Vivekanand
You’ll understand religion better, with your
muscles stronger.
Expansion is life; contraction is death.
Conquer yourself and the whole world is yours.
Your motives should be pure, and your will;
indomitable.
Love opens the most impossible gates.
Reform is not demolition but renovation.
We make our own destiny.
Fill the brain & the heart with great ideal.
Education is the manifestation of the perfection
already in man.
Happiest is the one who works unselfishly.
Men of renunciation and service – Need of the hour.
Elevate the individual; and the nation & it’s institutions will follow suit.
The water with which the plant is watered is the
measure of the luxuriance of its flower. Even so the spirit of a man is the
measure of its fortunes.
Let all our purposes be grand. For then, even if they
fail, our glory will not tarnish.
One of the great pleasures of life is doing things
that others say you
If your goals are realistic, you can achieve
anything.
You don’t know what you can do until you try.
You can achieve anything you want if you help enough
people to get what they want.
Only the 1st steps to achieve something
are difficult – The planning and the getting started.
People will remember what you achieve, not what you
promised to achieve.
Try to make everyday a day of achievement.
Most people want confirmation, not advice.
Those who need advice the most, like it the least.
Don’t offer advice unless you have gained it
through experience.
Remember ABC in life. Avoid Bad Company.
Inspiration comes from outside. Motivation comes from
within.
Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You cannot
cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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