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When traders will start cancelling orders from China it will send a powerful message to Chinese government that antagonising India will extract a huge price.
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Top 100 Quotes

The greatest power is the power of love.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.
Mahavira
Life is a beautiful mystery. Just live it. Trying to understand mystry is confusing, when we live the mystery of life so totally, joy dawns.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Cow protection is the eternal dharma of India.
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
If there were no siege of death, the creature would be bound forever in the form of an imperfect living. Pursued by death he awakes to the idea of perfect life and seeks out its means and its possibility.
Aurbindo Ghosh
Eat fire and your mouth will burn, live on credit and your belly will burn.
Proverb
Be moderate in your demands, just in your criticism, accurate in your facts, logical in your conclusions, and you can be sure that any propositions you make to our rulers will be considered by our strong and enlightened Governement.
Badruddin Tyabji
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
It is essential that we think about 'Our National Identity' without which there is no meaning of 'Independence'.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
The resolute will never allow grief to overcome them but will make even grief itself grieve.
Thirukkural
Meciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.
Bhagat Singh
Life is much larger than birth or death, failure and success. You are the unblemished pure eternal self. Knowing this you'll walk like a king.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
That mind which is attracted to more than one being can never reach the goal.
Swami Trigunatitananda
Satyagraha is not a creed for the weak or the cowardly.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Truth and Virtue do not necessarily belong to wealth and Power and distinctions of big mansions.
Raja Ram Mohan Rai
If there is strength in the public, they shall get whatever they need.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig.
G B Shaw
If only we concentrate on discharging our immediate duty and apply ourselves with unswerving faith and devotion to the task of today, we shall have no difficulty in knowing what our duties will be tomorrow.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
We have not produced brands as far as education is concerned in India.
Rahul Bajaj
If we have an aim and yet can never reach it, then it is no aim at all.
Rabindranath Tagore
Educate Agitate Organise
B R Ambedkar
Art is the response of man's creative Soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma Gandhi
If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
A cup is useful only when it is empty.
J Krishnamurthi
Agriculture is the backbone of the livelihood security system of nearly 700 million people in the country and we need to build our food security on the foundation of home grown food.
M S Swaminathan
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
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
B R Ambedkar
Empowering women is key to building a future we want.
Amartya Sen
We should know both the revealed and the unrevealed God.
Upanishad
To travel is a better thing than to arrive.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.
Avicenna
Aim high and aspire to reach the highest.
Zarathushtra
Heaven as fire is His head; sun and moon are His eyes; four quarters or directions are His ears; the Vedas that are expressed are His speech; the air is His breath; the universe is His mind; the earth has come from His feet. He is indeed the inner Self of all beings.
Mundokopanishad
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
A good entrepreneur never gives up…the soul of an entrepreneur is to keep trying until you find the successful idea.
Sabeer Bhatia
Everyone has a different clock. Wait for your time.
Jay Shetty
Life becomes a game when you learn to play it with the spirit of sport. Enjoy the whole journey from beginning to end.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
Aurbindo Ghosh
Man needs a Guru. But a man must have faith in Guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his Guru as God himself.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Yes, it is important to analyse your game and your mistakes, but over analysing is also not good.
Sachin Tendulkar
When you set the right targets, aspirations and do your work efficiently, diligently, numbers happen.
Anand Mahindra
God is attained through devotion and through love.
Morari Bapu
Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful.
Baba Amte
A man must not be judged by the nature of his duties, but by the manner in which he does them.
Swami Vivekananda
The Muslims are the flesh of our flesh and blood of our blood.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
The pinching poverty of the wise is far better than the ill-gotten wealth.
Thirukkural
The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Although devotion is to be given to many institutes and teachers, the essence is to be taken from them all, as the bee takes the essence from many flowers.
Swami Vivekananda
Don't limit a child to your own learning for they were born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the bird that feels the light when dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
A ripened fallen fruit cannot re-attach to the branch.
Kabir
When we tune out the opinions, expectations and obligations of the world around us, we begin to hear ourselves.
Jay Shetty
Giving even before one expresses one's poverty is the quality found in a noble man.
Thirukkural
You can count the number of fruits produced by a tree, but not the number of trees produced by its fruit.
Proverb
Don't look over mind's cravings. Rather overlook them.
Amogh Lila Das
That with the help of which we can know the truth, control the restless mind, and purify the soul is called knowledge in the Jain doctrine.
Mahavira
There's hope even when your brain tells there isn't.
John Green
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
B R Ambedkar
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
Aurbindo Ghosh
Nation First. Then your Guru, your Parents and finally your God! So, the nation should always come before yourselves.
Chhatarapati Shivaji
May all roads lead to infinite love.
A R Rehman
He who desires happiness should be thoroughly contented, for contentment is the real happiness and desire brings woe.
Manu
One is the path of devotion, what in India is called BHAKTI yoga, the path of love and devotion - a Meera, a Chaitanya, dancing and singing, losing themselves completely in the act. When Meera is dancing there is only dance, there is no Meera; the dancer is completely merged into the dance. When Chaitanya is singing and dancing there is no Chaitanya; he has become one with the act.
Osho Rajneesh
Destiny is the greatest power which will overcome all human efforts.
Thirukkural
He cannot cease to be because hideous immoralities or inhuman brutalities are committed in His name. He is a long suffering. He is patient but He is also terrible. He is the most exacting personage in the world and the world to come. He metes out the same measures to us that we mete out to our neighbors men and brutes. With Him ignorance is no excuse. And withal He is ever forgiving for He always gives us the chance to repent.
Mahatma Gandhi
Meditation is soul cleansing. 
B K Shivani
The ego is like a very powerful elephant which cannot be brought under control by any less powerful than a lion, which in this instance, is no other than the Guru, whose very look makes the elephant-like ego tremble and die.
Raman Maharshi
Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice.
Nelson Mandela
The worth of the shade is only known when the Sun is beating down hot.
Proverb
Sincerity is the sum of all moral qualities.
B R Ambedkar
Serve others with kindness and love and the Lord will reward you with His grace.
Guru Govind Singh
A civilization can be judged by the way it treats its minorities.
Mahatma Gandhi
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Gautam Buddha
Every challenge has its own unique problems.
Kiran Bedi
Let eternal vigilance be the price of liberty and integrity of the country hereafter.
Kiran Bedi
Don't try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you'll be fine.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Swami Vivekananda
Great minds discuss ideas. Medium minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Swami Chinmayananda
The more you know less likely you are to be afraid.
Savitribai Phule
What does a monkey know of the taste of the ginger?
Proverb
Power comes invariably to be usurped by a handful of the most ruthless among the erstwhile revolutionaries when power comes out of the barrel of a gun and the gun is not in the hands of the common people.
Jai Prakash Narayan
My greatest fear is giving performances. I feel I am responsible for the audience But I am also scared of them.
M. S. Subbulakshmi
Life would be dull and colorless but for the obstacles that we have to overcome and the fights that we have to win.
Rabindranath Tagore
According to me under the present circumstances, there is nothing more scientific and intelligent than banning cow slaughter.
Jai Prakash Narayan
Let us look for gems together but remain friends.
Proverb
I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.
Abraham Lincoln
This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.
Ved Vyas
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
Mind is never a problem. Mindset is.
Narendra Modi
Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.
Vladimir Lenin
We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Education is what remains after one has forgotton what one has learnt in the school.
Einstein
If we can love the goodness of the world, then we are loving God.
Surdas
The old need the young so that they renew their contact with life.
Indira Gandhi
Forgivenss frees the soul and opens the doors to inner peace.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
A good teacher must know how to arouse the interest of the pupil in the field of study.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
An effective leader is able to put himself in others' shoes and see things from their point of view.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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