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So I’ll say this —leave the advice & do the right thing, even if it isn’t the easiest thing to do. When you look back at your life, that’s what’s going to matter the most. Doing the right thing.
Ratan Tata

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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka
It is not lust alone that one should be afraid in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
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At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
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Ho Chi Minh
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Shashi Tharoor
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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Gaur Gopal Das
Covet not, nor envy, but rejoice at the fortunes of other people. Envy and selfishness break off friendship.
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Rabindranath Tagore
People with tireless zeal do not bother about the loss of worldly wealth.
Thirukkural
The whole of this body is sacred, if the light of the True One shines in it.
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Dr Zakir Hussain
If God was a capricious person instead of being changeless, unchangeable living law, He would in sheer indignation wipe out those who in the name of religion deny Him and His Law.
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Your time is limited. So don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs
As the great ocean has only one taste, the taste of salt, so my doctrine has only one flavour, the flavour of emancipation.
Gautam Buddha
No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.
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He, in whom the heaven, the earth and the interspace are centered, together with the mind and all life breaths (pran) - know him alone as the one Self of all, and desist from all other talks. This is the man's bridge to the shore of Immoratility (across the ocean of life).
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Rabindranath Tagore
Let no despondency enter into your heart; despair is the greatest enemy of progress in one's path.
Annonymous
Those who tolerate the rude remarks of the unjust are purer than the ascetics.
Thirukkural
Like the silkworm, you have built a cocoon around yourself. Burst your own cocoon and come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul.
Swami Vivekananda
Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun…
Mao Zedong
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Plato
A successful leader maintains a balance by listerning to the head as well as the heart.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Perfection is the attribute of the Almighty, and yet what a great democrat HE is! What an amount of wrong and humbug HE suffers on our part! HE even suffers insignificant creatures of HIS to question HIS very existence, though HE is in every atom about us, around us and within us. But, HE has reserved to HIMSELF the right of becoming manifest to whom so ever HE chooses. HE is a Being without hands and other organs, yet one can see HIM who HE chooses to reveal Himself.
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Sonam Wangchuk
Those who long for power try to be close to the powerful.
Ramayana
God helps when one feels oneself humbler than the very dust under one’s feet. Only to the weak and helpless is divine succor vouchsafed.
Mahatma Gandhi
The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas.
Bhagat Singh
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Mahatma Gandhi
If you want to walk fast, walk alone. If you want to walk far, walk together.
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Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love and brotherhood.
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
Those who once led their life by killing will live in poverty with dreadul diseases.
Thirukkural
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
For those who dare to dream, there is a whole world to win.
Dhirubhai Ambani
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world.
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M S Swaminathan
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Thirukkural
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Karan Bilimoria
The power of the mind are like the rays of the Sun dissipated. When they are concentrated, they illumine.
Swami Vivekananda
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
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Bhagvad Gita
You go into the battle with your strength.
Anand Mahindra
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Jean-jacques Rousseau
The most auspicious moment of your life is when you make the commitment to know the truth.
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
A civilization can be judged by the way it treats its minorities.
Mahatma Gandhi
Discipline does not concern itself with what should not be done but more with what should be done.
Ram Manohar Lohia
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
I don't believe in taking the right decisions. I take the decisions and make them right.
Ratan Tata
I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates
Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.
John F Kennedy
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Karl Marx
God's great power is in the gentle breeze, not in the storm.
Rabindranath Tagore
Education is not merely teaching of various academic subjects, but the cultivation of total reposnibilities in the student.
J Krishnamurthi
It's important that all of us work honestly, ethically and make our choices consciously.
Rahul Bajaj
Thinking is the capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution.
Apj Abdul Kalam
In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.
Shashi Tharoor
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
Man’s ultimate aim is the realization of god, and all his activities, social, political, religious, have to be guided by the ultimate aim of the vision of God. The immediate service of all human beings becomes a necessary part of the endeavor, simply because the only way to find God is to see Him in His creation and be one with it. This can only be done by service of all. I am a part and parcel of the whole, and I cannot find Him apart from the rest of humanity.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is not kingdom I desire, nor heaven, nor release from rebirth; what I desire is the destruction of the pains of creatures scorched by suffering.
Jamna Lal Bajaj
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
Company's size doesn't matter. Credibility does.
Anand Mahindra
There never was, there never will be, nor is there now, a man who is always blamed, or a man who is always praised.
Dhammapada
The whole world is poor, no one is rich. Only the one who has the wealth of God's name is rich.
Kabir
Educate Agitate Organise
B R Ambedkar
You have now to make the character of Mahavira (Hanuman) your ideal. See how at the command of Ramachandra he crossed the ocean. He had no care for life or death! He was a perfect master of his senses and wonderfully sagacious. You have now to build your life on this great ideal of personal service. Through that, all other ideals will gradually manifest in life. Obedience to the Guru without questioning, and strict observance of Brahmacharya — this is the secret of success.
Swami Vivekananda
Don't let noise of others' opinions drown your inner voice.
Steve Jobs
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the whole community.
Savitribai Phule
There are lessons to be learnt from everyone. The wise person realises this.
Ramayana
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Swami Vivekananda
The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Paramhansa Yogananda
The flute is sweet, the lute is sweet, say those who never heard the pretty prattle of their own children.
Thiruvalluvar
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.
Swami Vivekananda
Tapasya is the art of realizing the ultimate truth through self-discipline.
Annonymous
A clear conscience is the softest pillow in the world.
Narayan Murthy
Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto Von Bismarck
My model for business is the Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other's kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of its parts. That's how I see business… Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs
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
Do not be satisfied with stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.
Rumi
There is no need to tonsure or grow long hair if one shuns evil deeds.
Thirukkural
Confidence doesn't come when you have all the answers… but it comes when you are ready to face off the question.
Annonymous
What do I want to achieve? What am I striving for? What has been my goal for the last 30 years? In one word, I can say - Self-Realization!
Mahatma Gandhi
One should understand a brahman who merely reads much, to be a man of many words. Know him only to be true Brahman who swerves not from the truth.
Sanatsugatia

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