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Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure, and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Chanakya

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The new leadership in India is taking shape quietly, without any drum beating through the newspapers. … Various centers, the centers of energy and strength in the life of society are gaining tremendous momentum. May be, the surging new generation of today appears to have lost its bearing, to have lost its soul. But it is absolutely certain that one day it will have its own leader and prophet…. I am absolutely confident that the phoenix of a new leadership is rising from the ashes of all its failure. Soon the world will witness the lightning hidden in its beak and the storm hidden in its wings.
Baba Amte
I am a pure soul. I need nothing I give love & happiness.
B K Shivani
Everyone needs to work. Even a lion cannot sleep, expecting a deer to enter his mouth.
Hitopadesha
We must look the world in the face with calm eyes. Even though the eyes of the world are bloodshot today.
Mahatma Gandhi
Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.
Kailash Satyarthi
The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.
Khalil Gibran
Even a thin elephant cannot be tied in a cowshed.
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
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
The gain of democracy is the security of the individual's life, liberty and goods from the caprices of the tyrant one or the selfish one, its evil in the decline of greatness in humanity.
Aurbindo Ghosh
The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.
Ratan Tata
The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas.
Bhagat Singh
Eat fire and your mouth will burn, live on credit and your belly will burn.
Proverb
Performance leads to recognition. Recognition brings respect. Respect enhances power. Humility and Grace in one's moments of power enhances the dignity of an organization.
Narayan Murthy
The human soul travels from the law to love, from discipline to freedom, from the moral place to the spiritual plane.
Rabindranath Tagore
Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
With all my admiration and love for democracy, I am not prepared to accept the statement that the largest number of people are always right.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
In order to attain to ideal Brahmacharya one has in the beginning to observe strict rules regarding chastity. Not only should one keep oneself strictly aloof from the least association with the opposite sex, but also give up the company of married people even.
Swami Vivekananda
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
Life gives you both positive and negative. Focus on the good, and move ahead with commitment.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A Nation is a group of persons who live with 'A Goal', 'An Ideal', 'A Mission' and look upon a particular piece of land as the Motherland. If either of the two--The Ideal and The Motherland--is missing, then there is no nation.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Jaya Kishori
When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Paramhansa Yogananda
When you give roses to others, the perfume is bound to linger on your hands.
Baba Amte
Dedicate the precious days of your lives to the betterment of the world.
Mirza Husayn 'ali Nuri
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa
A lot of times we hear that nothing good can happen in government schools. The reason nothing can happen is that the children of those who have a voice do not study in them.
Sonam Wangchuk
When you are good at something you'll tell the world. If you are great at something, they'll tell you.
Jay Shetty
We want schools and education for every child’s bright future. We will continue our journey to our destination of peace and education for everyone.
Malala Yousafzai
Opportunism has shaken the confidence of People in Poltics.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
The sainlty appearance of a man without inner strength is like a grazing cow clothed in a tiger's skin.
Thirukkural
Humility is different from servility.
Proverb
The earth bearing the burden of men without fame loses its ferility and yields less.
Thirukkural
The soul quits the body anyday like a bird coming out of the egg-shell.
Thirukkural
The pressure of Muslims for cow slaughter is the limit… I have studied both Quran and Bible. According to both of them, to kill a cow even indirectly is a great sin.
Vinoba Bhave
For those who dare to dream, there is a whole world to win.
Dhirubhai Ambani
By practicing tapasya, we can develop a deep sense of compassion and empathy for others.
Annonymous
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
Empowering women is key to building a future we want.
Amartya Sen
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius
A woman is a full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.
Rabindranath Tagore
All lamps are not real lamps. To the great, the lamp of truth alone is the lamp.
Thirukkural
You can scare away a hundred crows with just one stone.
Proverb
An artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
Ananda K Coomaraswamy
When the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
Rabindranath Tagore
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
Annie Besant
Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life, making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
Rabindranath Tagore
We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
A successful leader maintains a balance by listerning to the head as well as the heart.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Tapasya teaches us the power of perseverance and determination in achieving our goals.
Annonymous
Living without expectation from anyone is punya (merit).
Morari Bapu
The Soul is neither a Jain nor a Vaishnav. The Soul is Vitarag (free from attachment and abhorrence). This is the religion of the Vitarag (the enlightened ones)
Dada Bhagwan
To rule wisely, the leader must take care to listen to all, scoff at none, ignore none.
Ramayana
My past is settled, present is beautiful, future is certain to be perfect.
B K Shivani
Time is the seed of the Universe.
Ved Vyas
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
George Washington
It is essential that we think about 'Our National Identity' without which there is no meaning of 'Independence'.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
There is a certain callousness in families like mine. They put up strong barriers so as not to see the misery in the world outside and I rebelled against it.
Baba Amte
What greater worship can there be than nature's own festival of lights!
Kabir
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
Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.
Amartya Sen
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Your thoughts and emotions may keep you fully engaged right now, but they are just small offshoots of life - they are not life itself.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
People should never worship images. The spread of mental darkness is due to the prevalence of idolatry.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Rama naam frees us from fear, Ram naam frees us from disease, and lastly His name frees us from our flaws.
Morari Bapu
And did the thought never come to you that you are also subject to decay, that you also cannot escape it?
Gautam Buddha
Anger is great vice. So too is pride. Together they can destroy common sense.
Mahabharata
The what, why & how of change works only and only when there is a deep want to change.
B K Shivani
In a journey from birth to death, we have to accomplish the journey from mortality to immortality.
Amogh Lila Das
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.
John F Kennedy
A good leader is a good communicator.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.
Bunker Roy
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
All the wealth earned by the benevolent by tireless efforts is meant to serve the worthy men.
Thirukkural
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Simone De Beauvoir
The joy of giving is greater than the joy of receiving.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
Mahavira
Speak Less, Speak Softly, Speak Sweetly. Save Energy.
B K Shivani
I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates
To understand the currents of a river, he who wishes to know the truth must enter the water.
Nisargadatta
According to me under the present circumstances, there is nothing more scientific and intelligent than banning cow slaughter.
Jai Prakash Narayan
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
He who sees Him in all and all in Him, hates none. He who feels for others as he feels for himself, loves all.
Isha Upanishad
It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty.
Ela Bhatt
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao Tzu
Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.
Amartya Sen
A nation is built in its educational institutions.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Clasping Kunti's hands in her thin, old, ivory-hued fingers, Gandhari whispered, Calm down, calm down, O Mother of the Pandavas! Calm down. Time moves in cycles, circling like the wheels of the chariot. Our life cycle is shrinking. Soon it will be just a dot. And finally even that dot will merge into the void.
Mahashweta Devi
Living together is human's natural state, and living together is not possible without cordiality, harmony and truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
The power of a single individual, irrespective of the social standing, should never be underestimated. Each one of us can bring about change.
Sudha Murthy
God is attained through devotion and through love.
Morari Bapu
When conditions are sufficient things manifest. When conditions are no longer sufficient things withdraw. They wait until the moment is right for them to manifest again.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Even a harmless lie can be considered as truth when it brings benevolent results.
Thirukkural
Knowing their worth, the goddess of wealth stays with the wise who value virtue and do not covet riches.
Thirukkural
Religion should help individuals to become better human beings.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Civilization should be the expression of man's dharma in his corporate life.
Rabindranath Tagore

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