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The heroes who fall in quest of victory or in defence of their faith are immortalized by the bards. But who remembers the widows they leave behind?
Mahabharata

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All human beings are our brothers and sisters. Working for their welfare is obligatory for Muslims.
Syed Ahmed Khan
To be successful in life, what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
Premchand
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interest. This is bitter truth.
Chanakya
The real worth of a person becomes apparent not during conditions of plenty but during privation.
Ramayana
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
If you spend your life killing, you will never be rid of all your enemies. But if you quell your own anger, you will have slain your real enemy.
Nagarjuna
Our sweat is the answer to all our problems, and that the tiller, the artisan and the teacher are the three agents who feed the body, mind and soul.
Dr Zakir Hussain
Before embarking on any task, delve into its purpose, potential outcomes, and your odds of success.
Chanakya
My thoughts create happiness & health. My body is perfect and healthy.
B K Shivani
Small things grow mighty if they are skillfully combined. Blades of grass will make a rope to bind a raging elephant.
Hitopadesha
A good teacher must know how to arouse the interest of the pupil in the field of study.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
Ivan Illich
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
You cannot knead dough and plait your hair at the same time.
Proverb
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
Swami Vivekananda
Only if you are a buffalo you can eat even on a full stomach.
Proverb
Leaders don't look behind or to the side. Instead they look ahead.
Anand Mahindra
Many people have uninstalled Chinese apps. So when crores uninstall apps. It will be a message for the Chinese government when they are intruding into India.
Sonam Wangchuk
Penance has the power to destroy the enemies and elevate the friends.
Thirukkural
Dream the impossible. Know that you are born in this world to do something wonderful and unique.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart -- I'll always be with you.
Christopher Robin
A socially backward people cannot develop a sound political sense and without a sound political sense there can be no democracy.
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto Von Bismarck
Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.
Amartya Sen
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
Let righteousness and Dharma prevail, and all communities and societies progress. Let our beloved Motherland regain its lost glory, and the sons of Bharat be victorious.
Madan Mohan Malviya
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
By the establishment of continence energy is gained. The chaste brain has tremendous energy and gigantic will-power. Without chastity there can be no spiritual strength. Continence gives wonderful control over mankind. The spiritual leaders of men have been very continent, and this is what gave them power. Therefore the Yogi must be continent.
Swami Vivekananda
Forgivenss frees the soul and opens the doors to inner peace.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
Travel only with the equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
Dhammapada
You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the Sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
Sai Baba
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually,and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Swami Vivekananda
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Jean-jacques Rousseau
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
A flower blooms in quietude; man’s inner self also blossoms in solitude. Each one of us should find our own space and solitude.
Morari Bapu
Books are the means by which we build bridges between cultures.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
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
To travel is a better thing than to arrive.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
You can't sell the cow and have the mik too.
Proverb
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
If you give me rice, I will eat today. If you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat everyday.
Mahatma Gandhi
With every breath I plant the seeds of devotion. I am a farmer of the heart.
Rumi
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
Tolerance is the homage which the finite mind pays to the inexhaustibility of the infinite
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Your time is limited. So don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs
Old age comes with the passage of time. Maturity comes with deep reflection.
Swami Chinmayananda
Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.
Amartya Sen
India happens to be a rich country inhabited by poor people.
Manmohan Singh
When fear lurks, don't cower. Confront and conquer it swiftly.
Chanakya
The true purpose of tapasya is to purify our thoughts and emotions and to connect with our innermost self.
Annonymous
If a man reads but one word of love, he becomes learned.
Swami Vivekananda
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
Tapasya teaches us the power of perseverance and determination in achieving our goals.
Annonymous
The focus is what is right before you - to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow.
Kiran Bedi
In a journey from birth to death, we have to accomplish the journey from mortality to immortality.
Amogh Lila Das
If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho Rajneesh
Results are produced only by action; not be riding the chariot of the mind.
Panchtantra
Whatever action is performed with compassion is truly karma; without compassion, it is all merely kriya.
Morari Bapu
Independance can be meaningful only if it becomes instrument for expression of our Culture.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Tapasya is not just a physical practice, it is a mental and spiritual discipline as well.
Annonymous
As I get older I realise that being wrong is not something bad as they teach you in school. It is an opportunity to learn something.
Richard Feynman
In order to achieve our goals, our methods must be as clean as the ultimate result!
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder in business but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.
Jamshedji Nausherwan Tata
Education imparted by heart can bring revolution in the society.
Maulana Azad
The way to build a nation is to build a good citizen. The majority of the citizens should be efficient, of good character, and possess a reasonable high sense of duty.
Sir M. Vishweshwaraiah
Don't be dead serious about your life - it's just a play.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Things that work in New York or New Delhi do not work in the mountains. We have to find our own solutions for our problems.
Sonam Wangchuk
Discontent with the actual is the necessary precondition of every moral change and spiritual rebirth.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Yesterday my Blood Pressure was down, but today it is back in control because the strength of the nation is behind me.
Anna Hazare
May your death be a step to immortality!
Rig Veda
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
Business need to go beyond the companies to the communities they serve.
Ratan Tata
One who commits unrighteousness and earns money by dishonesty, who is unthinking and such a person is a fool.
Samarth Guru Ramdas
Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Jaya Kishori
Another life-lesson: until our minds are emptied, how will we receive?
Arun Shourie
Private schools cannot be the answer to nation's needs. Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway are leading examples where government schools are world acclaimed.
Sonam Wangchuk
 Is this democracy? All have come together to make money. 
Anna Hazare
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Einstein
Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls, but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Religion can be defended by the purity of its adherents and their good deeds, never by quarrels with those of other faiths.
Mahatma Gandhi
Incredible things can be done simply if we are committed to make them happen.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Covet not, nor envy, but rejoice at the fortunes of other people. Envy and selfishness break off friendship.
Gautam Buddha
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Rumi
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy
Females are the most georgeous creatures in the whole world. And I think we are goegeous no matter what size we are.
Alicia Keys
Love should be expressed as selfless service to humanity.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's own limitations.
Aruna Roy
I do have this one purpose — increasing the intensity of my consciousness of life.
Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha
You can't connect the dots looking forward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life and karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs
What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
When you do things from you soul, you see a river moving in you, a joy.
Rumi
There is diversity and plurality in life but we have always attempted to discover the unity behind them.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
To attain inner peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.
Swami Brahmananda
It is a man making education all round: that is what we want.
Swami Vivekananda
To live and operate in the world, you may have to identify with something. Play your identifications, don't let them rule you.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Courtesy is the most precious of jewels. The beauty that is not perfected by courtesy is like a garden without a flower.
Buddhacharita
The nearest equivalent English term for Dharma can be 'Innate Law', though even that does not express the full meaning of Dharma. Since Dharma is supreme, our Ideal of the State has been 'Dharma Rajya'
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Our country is growing not because of its size or democracy but because of its outstanding entrepreneurs and hardworking people.
Rahul Bajaj
Tapasya is a reminder that true happiness comes from within, not from external sources.
Annonymous
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

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