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Good and evil deeds are not equal. Repel evil with what is better; then you will see that one who was once your enemy has become your dearest friend.
Quran

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Indian music is oriented solely to the end of divine communication. If I have done something in this respect entirely due to the grace of the Almighty who has chosen my humble self as a tool.“
M. S. Subbulakshmi
There are two major challenges before Indian agriculture today: ecological and economical. The conservation of our basic agricultural assets such as land, water, and biodiversity is a major challenge. How to make agriculture sustainable is the challenge.
M S Swaminathan
What we cultivate in times of ease, we store up to support us in times of change.
Gautam Buddha
All unenlightened persons produce sufferings. Having become deluded, they produce and reproduce sufferings, in this endless world.
Mahavira
Your time is limited. So don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs
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
Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all kinds of ways, our lives are transformed by education and security. Even if it had not one iota of effect [on] security, it would still remain in my judgment the biggest priority in the world.
Amartya Sen
All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
Mahavira
if it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be interdependent.
Mahatma Gandhi
Incarceration in my country is better than freedom abroad.
Subhash Chandra Bose
Brahmacharya should be like a burning fire within the veins!
Swami Vivekananda
A loser is one who has 'given up' on his dreams, so long as you are trying, you haven't lost yet.
Manmohan Singh
Compassion is the universal language of heart that unites us all.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate. It is also an excellent way to get staff involved in the company's operations.
Azim Premji
Knowledge is of no avail if you cannot control your tongue.
Kabir
If we have to die, we must die like brave men. As human beings with a sense of human dignity, we cannot die crying.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy.
Mahatma Gandhi
Great discoveries are often the result of making the wrong mistake at the right time.
Shashi Tharoor
Hinduism is a religion of knowledge and wisdom, not blind faith.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
I have learnt one thing in my life and I thoroughly believe in it. Don't wait for the destination, start finding happiness while you are on the journey. Don't postpone your happiness to them.
Gaur Gopal Das
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau
Most of the mistakes in life are caused by hasty decisions; Think, analyze and then act on it.
Annonymous
Stolen wealth seems to grow but actually it will result in limitless ruin.
Thirukkural
We are placed here as children playing in the lap of nature.
Teja Singh
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
Kabir
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
Out of all virtues simplicity is my most favorite virtue. So much so that I tend to believe that simplicity can solve most of the problems, personal as well as the world problems. If the life approach is simple one need not lie so frequently, nor quarrel nor steal, nor envy, anger, abuse, kill. Everyone will have enough and plenty so need not hoard, speculate, gamble, hate. When character is beautiful, you are beautiful. That is the beauty of simplicity.
Ela Bhatt
Too much reverance is the mark of a cheat.
Proverb
Devotion alone can save a person, needing no help of any other means.
Madhavadeva
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
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
Rabindranath Tagore
The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Teachers should be the best minds in the country.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
Kailash Satyarthi
Believe in kindness and serving others without any purpose.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
Seeking creates Vacuum. Giving creates fulfillment.
B K Shivani
Request the people of my country to continue this kranti. People should continue to fight even if I am not there. 
Anna Hazare
He who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
Isha Upanishad
Those who hoard and lose wealth do not know the joy of gladdening the poor with charity.
Thirukkural
 Is this democracy? All have come together to make money. 
Anna Hazare
With every breath I plant the seeds of devotion. I am a farmer of the heart.
Rumi
If we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.
Malala Yousafzai
Life is a matter of choices. Live well, it won't easily go wrong. You can't change your situations, you can change your response.
Gaur Gopal Das
In Bharat the Principles of Ethics are termed as Dharma--The Laws of Life.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
When fear lurks, don't cower. Confront and conquer it swiftly.
Chanakya
Our secret weapon is nationalism. To have nationhood, which is a sign of maturity, is greater than any weapons in the world.
Ho Chi Minh
Travel only with the equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
Dhammapada
Lovers of God do not belong to any caste.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing.
Steve Jobs
Meeting the deadline is not good enough. Beating the deadline is my expectation.
Dhirubhai Ambani
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
The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
God tries His votaries through and through, but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal He prescribes for them.
Mahatma Gandhi
If you cry because the Sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Rabindranath Tagore
If we believe in non-violence, it would not be right if we refuse to protect the weak in the name of non-violence. I may be ready to embrace even a snake, but if it comes to bite you, I will kill it to protect you.
Mahatma Gandhi
Eating of that which should not be eaten and drinking of intoxicating drinks also destroys him.
Bhagvad Gita
India happens to be a rich country inhabited by poor people.
Manmohan Singh
Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
A drop in the ocean partakes of the greatness of its parent, although it is unconscious of it. But it is dried up as soon as it enters upon an existence independent of the ocean. We do not exaggerate when we say that life is a bubble.
Mahatma Gandhi
The practice of tapasya requires us to face our fears and transcend them.
Annonymous
I feel that healing doesn't begin after the pain is over. Healing begins when we go throught the pain. Experiecning the pain is part of the healing process as well.
Gaur Gopal Das
Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto Von Bismarck
To abuse and insult, is inconsistent with reason and justice.
Raja Ram Mohan Rai
The power of truth and allure of beauty wield immense influence in the world.
Chanakya
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
If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King
Don't be dead serious about your life - it's just a play.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Intellectual beauty is indeed, the highest kind of beauty.
Dr C V Raman
What is dangerous is not making mistakes, but to be so enamored of one’s point of view that one does not let facts get in the way. To make progress, we have to constantly go back to the facts, acknowledge our errors, and move.
Abhijit Banerjee
Wisdom comes not only from our mistakes but also learning from other's missteps.
Chanakya
There is no economy in the world which is a mixed economy. The question is, what kind of mixture?
Amartya Sen
The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing
Dr S Radhakrishnan
We are a true, proud and independent nation if we remove corruption from our country.
Rahul Bajaj
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the Sun fails.
Romain Rolland
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
Indira Gandhi
Water cleans the body. Likewise, truth enlightens the soul.
Thirukkural
That which is invisible, ungraspable, unoriginated and attributeless, that which has neither eyes not ears nor hands nor legs - that is Eternal, full of manifestations, all-pervading subtlest of the subtle - that impreshiable Being is what the wise perceive as the source of all creation.
Mundokopanishad
Who ignores not weak foe, with intellect waits for his opportunity, who displays in season ability, with the stronger desires no hostility; grieves not in calamity, applying all senses, patiently bearing misery, is wise - foremost of persons and all his foes but vanquished to be.
Vidur
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx
Endowed with conduct and discipline, Who practices control of self, Who throws out all his bondage, He attains the eternal place.
Mahavira
Education is your best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Chanakya
You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
Aung San Suu Kyi
We had taken pride in resisting Things-British while They (Britishers) ruled us, but strangely enough, now that the Britishers have left, Westernisation has become synonymous with Progress.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
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.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Our mind is like a garden which can either be intelligently cultivated or be allowed to run wild.
R K Murti
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs
The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element
Mahavira
Mind is never a problem. Mindset is.
Narendra Modi
Sincerity is the sum of all moral qualities.
B R Ambedkar
Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.
Aruna Roy
The water on the lotus is extremely unsteady; even so is life fickle in the extreme; know that gripped by disease and desire, the whole world becomes struck with misery.
Adi Shankaracharya
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
I am a Hindu, a Muslim, a Parsi but above all an Indian first.
Dadabhai Naoroji
The values of life are more valuable than the valuables of life.
Swami Tejomayanand
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
One may consider coveting another's wife (Vyabhichar) lightly. But the disgrace will stay forever.
Thirukkural
Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.
Akbar The Great

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