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Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show that she can solar-electrify a village
Bunker Roy

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Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.
Anil Ambani
Business need to go beyond the companies to the communities they serve.
Ratan Tata
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
Mahatma Gandhi
There will be a backlash from those who don't benefit from the system.
Rahul Bajaj
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are afraid of the consequences.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
You have to dream before dreams can come true.
Apj Abdul Kalam
For every man, no matter to what caste he may belong, the zealous performance of his duty and the discharge of his obligations is his most important work.
Rc Dutt
One who commits unrighteousness and earns money by dishonesty, who is unthinking and such a person is a fool.
Samarth Guru Ramdas
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Indira Gandhi
Complete continence gives great intellectual and spiritual power. The Brahmachârin must be sexually pure in thought, word, and deed. Lose regard for the body; get rid of the consciousness of it so far as possible.
Swami Vivekananda
Sometimes spending time with yourself is the only therapy you need.
Annonymous
Khusrau, the bride spends the eve of her wedding awake with her beloved, the body belongs to her, but heart to him…the two have become one.
Amir Khusro
Death includes it all, all castes, all kinds. He is no man's enemy and no man's friend.
Ved Vyas
A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness.
Mahatma Gandhi
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Franz Kafka
Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people
B R Ambedkar
Happiness lies in contentment. When we stop comparing ourselves with others, we discover the joy in our own lives.
Sudha Murthy
From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.
Kailash Satyarthi
If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.
Annonymous
The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.
Paramhansa Yogananda
The vision of God is nothing more than the realisation and feeling of His presence, both within and around you, for God is an all prevalent spirit that permeates the entire universe. The worlds manifest in terms of name and form are not separate from Him because they are His own representation.
Samarth Guru Ramdas
One individual may die for an idea; but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
Subhash Chandra Bose
Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have courage to take a leap of faith on any one of them.
Anand Mahindra
Just wake up and see that all the past is only a memory. In the flow of time, all events are dissolving.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Being grateful has limitations, No man can be greatful at the cost of his dignity, No woman at the cost of her chastity and No country at the cost of its freedom.
B R Ambedkar
Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.
Akbar The Great
When State acquires all powers, both political and economic; the result is a decline of Dharma.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
The true path to enlightenment is through humility, compassion and selflessness.
Guru Govind Singh
Great discoveries are often the result of making the wrong mistake at the right time.
Shashi Tharoor
We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.
Vinoba Bhave
An artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
Ananda K Coomaraswamy
He who does not jump into the floods does not have to worry about drowning. He who follows the standards of health will live a long and healthy life. Similarly, one who would not entertain the sensation of “I” (Ahankar) on all occasions of activity and non-activity will have no dread in this world. How can dread arise when a sense of unity has dawned and everyone else looks to be a part of one’s self?
Gyaneshwar
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare
The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
Paramhansa Yogananda
The principles of Ethics are not framed by any one, these are rather discovered.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Mother Teresa
To serve our villages is to establish Swaraj. Everything else is but an idle dream. … Exploitation of villages is itself an organized violence. If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.
Mahatma Gandhi
Think before you act.
Mahatma Gandhi
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Don't look over mind's cravings. Rather overlook them.
Amogh Lila Das
To refrain from hurting anyone wilfully in any manner at any time even in thought is the chief virtue.
Thirukkural
The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum wages to your own workers.
Aruna Roy
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napolean Bonapart
Educate Agitate Organise
B R Ambedkar
Sickness is not cured by saying 'Medicine,' but by drinking it.
Adi Shankaracharya
When harmlessness and kindness are fully developed, there is a complete absence of enmity both in men and animals, among all tht are near.
Patanjali
Both from the national as well as human stand point, it has become essential that we think of the principles of Bhartiya Culture.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Swarajya is my birthright and I shall have it.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
You are what you think.
Confucius
If you want to go east, don't go west.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Make a wrong-doer feel shy, by doing him a favour.
Thiruvalluvar
Before embarking on any task, delve into its purpose, potential outcomes, and your odds of success.
Chanakya
The advice of the righteous is like a stick that helps one on a marshy ground.
Thirukkural
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Mother Teresa
Freedom can exist only when there is equality in all walks of life. Without equality, to talk about freedom is to deny freedom to many in the interest of a few.
Ram Manohar Lohia
We live in an 'eventocracy'. This is a new form of democracy where there is nothing greater than the event. Any policy announcement has so many events that people have begun to believe in the arrival of an avatar.
Ravish Kumar
In simplicity lies the entire glory of the world!
Mahatma Gandhi
Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.
Vladimir Lenin
Only if you are a buffalo you can eat even on a full stomach.
Proverb
The pressure of Muslims for cow slaughter is the limit… I have studied both Quran and Bible. According to both of them, to kill a cow even indirectly is a great sin.
Vinoba Bhave
Consider the honey-bee. Its treasure is nectar, obtained even from the chilly plant. It is not at the cost of the flower. In fact, its act of extracting honey contributes to the progress of the flowers. You need not learn from Kahlil Gibran, Marx or Gorbachev, not even from Gandhiji. Choose instead to learn your lesson from the honey bees as your silent partners: they will show you how to develop without destroying.
Baba Amte
Think a hundred times before you take a decision, but once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and He tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, He comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that He is always at your beck and call, but on His terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, He has forsaken me.
Mahatma Gandhi
Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of real and unreal. In fact it is beyond all relativity.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Science is acquaintance, not knowledge. It can never be absolute.
Osho Rajneesh
Do not return a blow by a blow, nor a curse by a curse, neither mean craftiness by base tricks but shower blessings in return for blows and curses.
Rig Veda
If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.
Mahatma Gandhi
Humility in speech cannot be attained by men who never listen to the discourse of the wise.
Thirukkural
Doubts, too, are a stepping stone to wisdom.
T L Vaswani
Serve others with kindness and love and the Lord will reward you with His grace.
Guru Govind Singh
It is essential that we think about 'Our National Identity' without which there is no meaning of 'Independence'.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
A man must not be judged by the nature of his duties, but by the manner in which he does them.
Swami Vivekananda
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
Mother Teresa
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi
Living in a market economy is not very much different from speaking in prose. It is not easy to do without it.
Amartya Sen
All being long for happiness; therefore extend the compassion to all. Whatever may be the cause of your suffering, do not wound another.
Gautam Buddha
Happiness dies when not shared.
Baba Amte
If we have an aim and yet can never reach it, then it is no aim at all.
Rabindranath Tagore
Worry doesn't make anything, but hard work.
Rahul Bajaj
Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish
Mao Zedong
A good teacher must know how to arouse the interest of the pupil in the field of study.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved; it is not possible for a bird to fly on only one wing.
Swami Vivekananda
Joy is more infectious than leprosy.
Baba Amte
There were days I wanted to give up but hope would everyday push me to the next day. I kept saying, this is going to pass so there is hope.
Deepika Padukone
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Swami Vivekananda
Give up your head, but forsake not those whom you have undertaken to protect. Sacrifice your life, but relinquish not your faith.
Guru Teg Bahadur
He is neither attached to worldliness nor lets senses and anger affect him. In such a person resides God.
Guru Teg Bahadur
A good leader is prepared to put the organization, the country before his own needs.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
We should know both the revealed and the unrevealed God.
Upanishad
Discipline is the code of conduct of decent living.
Sam Maenkshaw
With every book you buy, you add a millimeter to your mental stature.
Lala Har Dayal Mathur
Woman, I hold, is the impersonificaiton of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately she doesn't realize what tremendous advantage she has over men.
Mahatma Gandhi
Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
We want deeper sincerity of motive, greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Sarojini Naidu
All the knowledge in the world is no good if it deserts a person in the hour of need.
Ramayana
We are a true, proud and independent nation if we remove corruption from our country.
Rahul Bajaj
Surrender to God, and you shall be filled with His grace.
Tuka Ram

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