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Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically, but you have to first find what you are good at.
Vishwanathan Anand

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Top 100 Quotes

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element
Mahavira
Life is a journey and challenges are just a pit stop along the way.
Jaya Kishori
Let us move on to the stars. Who can hamper our ascent?
Sarojini Naidu
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare
Your thoughts and emotions are drama that you create in your mind. You must be able to end it somewhere.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Education has mainly two aspects, the cultura aspect which makes a person grow and the productive aspect which makes a person do things. Both are essential.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Only that science is a great and the best of all sciences, the study of which frees man from all kinds of miseries.
Mahavira
If one knows that meat is only a sore of an animal, one will refrain from eating it.
Thirukkural
Whatever action is performed with compassion is truly karma; without compassion, it is all merely kriya.
Morari Bapu
Your experiece of life is proportional to your emotional state... Mind can make hell out of heaven or heaven out of hell.
Gaur Gopal Das
The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
Paramhansa Yogananda
See life as an adventourous game and play the game without worrying about the outcome.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The world belongs to those who let go.
Lao Tzu
Meciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.
Bhagat Singh
Love thy neighbour as thyself because you are your neighbour. It is an illusion that makes you think that your neighbour is someone other than yourself.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
We can, We must.
Swami Chinmayananda
Mind is never a problem. Mindset is.
Narendra Modi
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Indira Gandhi
Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Don't let the world change your smile, use your smile to change the world.
Jay Shetty
True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Anchors aren't just creating fiction; they're becoming characters in the fiction they themselves create. In the world of TV channels, facts are presented like fiction, so governments aren't inconvenienced; fiction is presented like fact, so governments stay happy.
Ravish Kumar
Don't be a candle that needs a flame to burn, be a Sun that burns on its own.
Rumi
On seeing the cold look of the host, the face of the guests (atithi) withers like the anicham (a delicate sensitive flower) that withers when smelt.
Thirukkural
No one can attain perfection while he is in the body for the simple reason that the ideal state is impossible so long as one has not completely overcome his ego, and ego cannot be wholly got rid of so long as one is tied down by the shackles of the flesh.
Mahatma Gandhi
Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
Steve Jobs
The mind is a powerful instrument. Every thought and every emotion that you create changes the very chemistry of your body.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
By practicing tapasya, we can cultivate a strong sense of discipline and focus.
Annonymous
Surrender to God, and you shall be filled with His grace.
Tuka Ram
In order to achieve our goals, our methods must be as clean as the ultimate result!
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Empathy is the most essential quality a human being should possess. It helps us understand others share their pain, and offer support.
Sudha Murthy
Every man should make it his duty to perform his journey in life by means of daily righteous dealing with all.
Rig Veda
Everyday is a new opportunity to make a positive change in your life.
Jaya Kishori
Knowledge in the head is just data which leads to pride. Knowledge, when it comes to action, becomes realization which leads to humbleness.
Amogh Lila Das
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma Gandhi
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
Ivan Illich
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the trouble makers, the round pegs in the square hole… the ones who see things differently…they are not fond of rules…you can quote them…disagree with them, glorify or villify them, but the only thing you can't do is to ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough, to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs
True happiness is when the love within us finds expression in external activites.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
Kabir
Talent accompanies with good attitude makes one happliy malleable.
Amogh Lila Das
There are certain things which only you can do. No one else can do them. Find what they are and go and do them.
J P Vaswani
Admiration usually follows shapes of surpassing beauty.
Kalidasa
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
Kailash Satyarthi
We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on till the scope of our love becomes coterminous with the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.
Gautam Buddha
Don't be dead serious about your life - it's just a play.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.
John F Kennedy
If defeated and killed on the field of battle, we shall surely earn eternal glory and salvation.
Jhansi Ki Raani
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include freedom to make mistakes.
Bhagat Singh
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
Annie Besant
Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
Ramakrishna Paramhansa
Never blame anyone if you got hurt by them because it was not their fault, it was you who gave the right to tear you apart.
Jay Shetty
Though tortured like scorching fire, it is better to control one's anger.
Thirukkural
The progress of civilization depends not only on intellectual creativeness but also on the moral qualities of gentleness and compassion.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Take the stones people throw at you. And use them to build a monument.
Ratan Tata
We try to make children problem-solvers. That gave birth to solar-heated mud buildings, using greenhouses to grow things and ice stupas - artificial baby glaciers.
Sonam Wangchuk
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
Forgiveness means they do not live in your mind anywhere.
B K Shivani
Teachers should be the best minds in the country.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
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
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
Mahatma Gandhi
Humility is non-negotiable. If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or desire to control.
Anand Mahindra
The most auspicious moment of your life is when you make the commitment to know the truth.
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
The best people to surround yourself with are the people that bring out the best in you.
Jay Shetty
The appearance of a seed is in direct contradiction to its true nature.
Rabindranath Tagore
We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our own lines, unembarrassed by what Western civilisation has to teach us and unhampered by the institutions which the West has imposed.
Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Money is just a byproduct of success. The real satisfaction lies in the the joy of achieving something in the feeling of doing something worthwhile.
Sudha Murthy
Conflict is not a sign of culture of Nature rather it is a symptom of their degradation.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Discipline is the code of conduct of decent living.
Sam Maenkshaw
Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.
Jesus Christ
Not every debt can be paid off with money.
Rabindranath Tagore
Unless you are constantly striving to be inclusive in every possible way, you will not explore the full depth and dimension of what you are capable of.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
India's place in the Sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals.
Dr V Kurien
It is better to refrain from killing and eating meat than numerous offerings of ghee on fire.
Thirukkural
A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world a better place we so passionately dreamt of.
Nelson Mandela
Follow the path of love.
Mahatma Gandhi
It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
Mahatma Gandhi
To attain inner peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.
Swami Brahmananda
Let a woman gather around the helpless, let her flower in the hearts of the people, let her bloom out in all actions, sacrifices and offerings.
Rabindranath Tagore
When a certain quantity of milk is mixed with double the quantity of water, it requires a good deal of time and labor to condense it. The mind of a worldly man is diluted with the filthy water of impure thoughts, and he has to work long and hard to purify it.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Aim high and aspire to reach the highest.
Zarathushtra
Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools. Even as light that illuminates the eye, makes owls blind.
Panchtantra
Do not run away from death, for you can never die before the appointed time, and nothing can save you from dying when the appointed time comes.
Zarathushtra
Travel only with the equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
Dhammapada
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
The government's money is the people's money. Make effective policies for the benefit of the people.
Anna Hazare
One may consider coveting another's wife (Vyabhichar) lightly. But the disgrace will stay forever.
Thirukkural
Keep in mind only the thoughts you want to happen, thoughts are seeds and events are their fruits.”
B K Shivani
He who can listen to music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.
Vikram Sarabhai
Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
Mahavira
This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.
Ved Vyas
Cheerful patience is required both for naughty children and your own mind.
Gautam Buddha
Land is becoming a diminishing resource for agriculture, in spite of a growing understanding that the future of food security will depend upon the sustainable management of land resources as well as the conservation of prime farmland for agriculture.
M S Swaminathan
Where there is realization outside the senses it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of god within. Such testimony is to be found in the experiences in all countries and climes. To reject this evidence is to deny oneself.
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness exists in positive thoughts.
Mahatma Gandhi
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances and deomonstrations for impressions.
John Ruskin

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