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We don't get a chance to do that many things and everyone should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief and then you die, you know? We have all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.
Steve Jobs

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Top 100 Quotes

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russel
In India, unlike in the United States and Australia, agriculture is not just a food producing enterprise but also the backbone of the livelihood security of nearly 60 per cent of the population.
M S Swaminathan
As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for up, nor indeed do we need rest any longer. Our very sleep is action. For we sleep with the thought of God in our hearts. This restlessness constitutes true rest. This never-ceasing agitation holds the key to peace ineffable. This supreme state of total surrender is difficult to describe, but not beyond the bounds of human experience. It has been attained by many dedicated souls, and may be attained by ourselves as well.
Mahatma Gandhi
Civilization finds its completeness when it expresses humanity not when it displays its power to amass materials.
Rabindranath Tagore
If there is a fundamental distinction between man and beast, it is the former's progressive recognition of the law and its application in practice to his own personal life. All the saints of the world, ancient and modern, were each according to His light and capacity a living illustration of that supreme Law of our Being.
Mahatma Gandhi
No man on earth has envy raised to fame, While want of it has driven none to shame. The heart that givesn in to envy's sway, to virtuous life will fail to lead the way.
Thiruvalluvar
He who receives guests (atithi) one after another will be an honoured guest in heaven.
Thirukkural
The creation may be likened to a play on the stage; pain and pleasure are both parts of this divine play.
Swami Nikhilananda
The problem is not the lack of resources or capability, but the lack of will.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Diverse people with diverse shortcomings can work together if they have common higher ideals. Just like gems of different shapes and colors are strung together through the thread.
Amogh Lila Das
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
Gautam Buddha
One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.
Guru Nanak
The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.
Beyonce Knowles-carter
Swarajya is my birthright and I shall have it.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
Sai Baba
Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in which we find ourselves.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
When you give roses to others, the perfume is bound to linger on your hands.
Baba Amte
Civilization should be the expression of man's dharma in his corporate life.
Rabindranath Tagore
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napolean Bonapart
Because of his attachment to the body, man is not able to understand his divine nature.
Ramayana
Sometimes spending time with yourself is the only therapy you need.
Annonymous
What does a monkey know of the taste of the ginger?
Proverb
Time is not measured by passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
There is no need to tonsure or grow long hair if one shuns evil deeds.
Thirukkural
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
Annie Besant
Where Love is, there God is also.
Mahatma Gandhi
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
Hegel put forward the principles of thesis, anti-thesis and synthesis; Karl Marx used this principle as a basis and presented his analysis of history and economics; Darwin considered the principle of survival of the fittest as the sole basis of life; but we in this country saw the basic unity of all life.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
A man who practises self-control (sanyam) is greater than the greatness and firmness of a mountain.
Thirukkural
Some things come with their own punishments.
Arundhati Roy
Dedicate the precious days of your lives to the betterment of the world.
Mirza Husayn 'ali Nuri
Truth is like the Sun. No human being can ever look straight in its face without blinking or being dazed.
R K Narayanan
Death visits us only once, never twice and it does not make any distinction between a millionaire and a pauper, why, then, should we be afraid of it? Let us all cast aside and for all these false fears of death.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Never say: 'I had no choice.' It's always our choice.
B K Shivani
Thinking is the capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution.
Apj Abdul Kalam
The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.
Friedrich Engels
Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. There is water inside the jar, water outside but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
An impartial (Nishpaksh) man's wealth is an imperishable security to his future generations.
Thirukkural
Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.
Kailash Satyarthi
See life as an adventourous game and play the game without worrying about the outcome.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A cup is useful only when it is empty.
J Krishnamurthi
Every day spend a few moments giving thought and time to God, to nature, your saint, your scripture, and finally your own self.
Morari Bapu
Those with untiring and unfailing efforts will conquer even the unyielding fate.
Thirukkural
Those who tolerate the rude remarks of the unjust are purer than the ascetics.
Thirukkural
My study of the Quran has convinced me that the basis of Islam is not violence but pure peace.
Mahatma Gandhi
...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.
Arundhati Roy
A true leader has a long term vision and a short term plan to work on it.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
We do not know all the laws of God nor their working. Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greater spiritualist is like a particle of dust. If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more. He rules me in the tiniest detail of my life. I believe literally that not a leaf moves but by His will. Every breath I take depends upon His sufferance.
Mahatma Gandhi
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
It is by art and literature that a society is judged at the bar of history.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Women and gold keep men immersed in worldliness. The woman is disarmed when you view her as the manifestation of the Divine Mother.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao Tzu
The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.
Amartya Sen
No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy.
Mahatma Gandhi
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
Kabir
Culture is widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
You can scare away a hundred crows with just one stone.
Proverb
The true purpose of tapasya is to purify our thoughts and emotions and to connect with our innermost self.
Annonymous
A man of learning and self-control (sanyam) who is free from anger will be blessed by the god of virtue.
Thirukkural
One should first weigh the investment, expenditure and income, and then proceed.
Thirukkural
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
God is a very hard taskmaster. He is never satisfied with fireworks display. His mills although they grind surely and incessantly grind excruciatingly slow and He is never satisfied with hasty forfeitures of life. It is a sacrifice of the purest that He demands, and so you and I have prayerfully to plod on, live out the life so long as it is vouchsafed to us to live it.
Mahatma Gandhi
The principles of Marx have changed both with the changing times as well as with varying conditions to the extent that parrot-like repetition of Marxism for solving problems facing our country would amount to a reactionary attitude rather than a scientific & pragmatic one.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Steve Jobs
Living in a market economy is not very much different from speaking in prose. It is not easy to do without it.
Amartya Sen
What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
Sai Baba
It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed
Ela Bhatt
Confidence doesn't come when you have all the answers… but it comes when you are ready to face off the question.
Annonymous
There is need, not only to secure full employment but also such employment as produces comparatively equal wealth in all the regions of the world.
Ram Manohar Lohia
Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."
Kasturba Gandhi
Though one may be a little bubble and another may be a mountain-high wave, yet behind both the bubble and the wave there is the infinite ocean.
Swami Vivekananda
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King
The government's money is the people's money. Make effective policies for the benefit of the people.
Anna Hazare
What the country needs most at the present moment is a spirit of self-sacrifice on the part of our educated young men, and they may take it from me that they cannot spend their lives in a better cause than raising the moral and intellectual level of their unhappy low castes and promoting their well-being.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
What you see as curse, can turn into a blessing. What you see as bad, can turn into good. So never evaluate any situation based on its face value.
Gaur Gopal Das
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Don't let noise of others' opinions drown your inner voice.
Steve Jobs
Woman is more fitted than man to take exploration and to take bolder action in non-violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
In every challenge lies an opportunity for growth and self-discovery.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
But if yours is to be a spiritual warfare, your weapons must be those of the spiritual soldier. Anger is not for you, hatred is not for you, nor for you is pettiness, meanness or falsehood.
Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das
The power of truth and allure of beauty wield immense influence in the world.
Chanakya
Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.
Amartya Sen
The greatest danger to character comes from greed and by money, wasteful expenditure and the social prestige that is falsely associated with it.
Ram Manohar Lohia
Human Knowledge is common property.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Distractions are those things that we see when our eyes are off purpose, off our goals. When our eyes are very focused on what we want to do, there will be a couple of inconveniences, couple of things that we have to take it in our stride and move on.
Gaur Gopal Das
People try to create an outwardly perfect life, but the quality of life is based on the inward.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Wealth may come today and be gone tomorrow, but good character will last our whole life.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
He who bears no ill will to any being, is friendly and compassionate, without attachment and egotism, balanced in pleasure and pain and forgiving, ever content, harmonious with the self-controlled resolute mind and reason dedicated to Me; he, My devotee, is dear to Me.
Bhagvad Gita
The progress of civilization depends not only on intellectual creativeness but also on the moral qualities of gentleness and compassion.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Only that science is a great and the best of all sciences, the study of which frees man from all kinds of miseries.
Mahavira
I find it strange that our children, teenagers are kept captive listening in classrooms. Earlier education was for career and livelihood. Now, it has to rise to solve the crisis facing the earth and nations have to pay attention to the education of children to save this planet.
Sonam Wangchuk
Noble manliness of not eyeing another's wife is a virtue and also a discipline of the great.
Thirukkural
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
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is simply putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. Death is not the ultimate reality.
Rabindranath Tagore
Mode of completion, obstacles and profit should be measured well before venturing into an action.
Thirukkural
Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
Kailash Satyarthi
So let us wage a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty, and terrorism, and let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons.
Malala Yousafzai
The path to success is often paved with hard work and determination.
Jaya Kishori

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