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Do not return a blow by a blow, nor a curse by a curse, neither mean craftiness by base tricks but shower blessings in return for blows and curses.
Rig Veda

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I learnt that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. A brave man is not who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
When there are mangoes in the tree, stones are many.
Proverb
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
A person who conquers his own self is greater than the one who conquers thousands in battle.
Mahavira
Those who cannot live in harmony with the world are fools though they are learned.
Thirukkural
Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
Swami Vivekananda
Do not hate anyone, for hate only breeds more hate.
Guru Govind Singh
Freedom is a state of mind - not freedom from something.
J Krishnamurthi
By remembering one help rendered, even a dreadful harm is forgotten.
Thirukkural
Be truthful, kind and humble in all your actions, and you shall find peace in this life and the hereafter.
Guru Govind Singh
To be one with the world is wisdom.
Thiruvalluvar
If a man prays to thee with a yearning heart, he can reach thee, though thy grace, by any path.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
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
If I cannot speak or write about it, I struggle with the truth. When I speak out in an effort to process what I observe and attempt to stretch myself beyond my many inadequacies, people ask me am I not afraid of the government? I am scared of my inadequacies.
Ravish Kumar
The power of the mind are like the rays of the Sun dissipated. When they are concentrated, they illumine.
Swami Vivekananda
Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
Mahesh Yogi
Man's life is like an egg in the hands of an infant.
Proverb
We do not know all the laws of God nor their working. Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greater spiritualist is like a particle of dust. If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more. He rules me in the tiniest detail of my life. I believe literally that not a leaf moves but by His will. Every breath I take depends upon His sufferance.
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness dies when not shared.
Baba Amte
A good entrepreneur never gives up…the soul of an entrepreneur is to keep trying until you find the successful idea.
Sabeer Bhatia
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
Bhakti in religion may be a road to the salvation of the soul. But in politics, Bhakti or hero-worship is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship.
B R Ambedkar
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
You have to dream before dreams can come true.
Apj Abdul Kalam
Freedom can exist only when there is equality in all walks of life. Without equality, to talk about freedom is to deny freedom to many in the interest of a few.
Ram Manohar Lohia
Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding.
M S Swaminathan
I relish simplicity as an all-comprehensive value.
Ela Bhatt
Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
George Washington
When nature is channeled according to the principles of Dharma, we have culture & civilisation.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
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
If people were silent, nothing would change.
Malala Yousafzai
The highest eduction is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath Tagore
The whole of this body is sacred, if the light of the True One shines in it.
Guru Nanak
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
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
Kailash Satyarthi
Complete continence gives great intellectual and spiritual power. The Brahmachârin must be sexually pure in thought, word, and deed. Lose regard for the body; get rid of the consciousness of it so far as possible.
Swami Vivekananda
An intelligent man knows that death is born along with his own birth.
Bhaktivedant Swami Prabhupad
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore
Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
Paramhansa Yogananda
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto Von Bismarck
Desire in itself is not evil. Desire is an incentive to actions and stimulant to active life.
Zarathushtra
If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Practice Humility, Compassion & Unity. Heal yourself to heal the planet. 
B K Shivani
There is diversity and plurality in life but we have always attempted to discover the unity behind them.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.
Mahatma Gandhi
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Steve Jobs
Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.
Baba Amte
Every man should make it his duty to perform his journey in life by means of daily righteous dealing with all.
Rig Veda
A good leader is a good communicator.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Lack of hospitality (Atithi - Satkar) is the worst form of poverty. To bear with fools is the greatest strength.
Thirukkural
I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.
Kiran Bedi
Mind is never a problem. Mindset is.
Narendra Modi
Let eternal vigilance be the price of liberty and integrity of the country hereafter.
Kiran Bedi
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa
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
Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept always in the tide of Time.
Mahatma Gandhi
The concept of equality should not rest on abstract but on the practical one that all men must be equal not within a nation but also among nations.
Ram Manohar Lohia
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi
Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if I can rouse my countrymen, immersed in tamas, to stand on their own feet and be men inspired with the spirit of karma-yoga. I am a follower only of he or she who serves and helps others without caring for his own bhakti and mukti!
Swami Vivekananda
Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people
B R Ambedkar
Take the stones people throw at you. And use them to build a monument.
Ratan Tata
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
Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion.
Mahavira
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
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
The Self is attained through veracity, concentration, wisdom and continence; cultivate all of them constantly. When impurities thus dwindle, the ascetic beholds Him - stainless, resplendent - within his very body.
Mundokopanishad
Don't avoid doing something wondering what its consequences may be. Give it a thought, break it down, and consider what really may happen rather than not do it at all.
Kiran Bedi
Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude, when you step away.
Anand Mahindra
Though the unlearned are high-born, they are not so great as the learned who are low-born.
Thirukkural
I am an ordinary citizen and quite insignificant, but I am also a vigilant and committed journalist.
Ravish Kumar
Eat fire and your mouth will burn, live on credit and your belly will burn.
Proverb
There’s no knowledge without right faith, no conduct is possible without knowledge, without conduct, there’s no liberation, and without liberation, no deliverance.
Mahavira
Worry doesn't make anything, but hard work.
Rahul Bajaj
If we can love the goodness of the world, then we are loving God.
Surdas
Always try to represent yourself 'Happy', because, initially, it becomes your 'Look'. Gradually it becomes your 'Habit' and finally it becomes your 'Personality'.
Annonymous
A king must choose with prudence his ministers as they act as his eyes.
Thirukkural
Forsake friends, wife and all; but testify to that for which you have lived and for which you have to die. I want to live my full span of life. And for me I put my span of life at 120 years. By that time India will be free, the world will be free.
Mahatma Gandhi
The dawn is the dream of God's creative fancy.
Rig Veda
Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.
Akbar The Great
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
The ultimate goal of human life is to attain knowledge of the self.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Basically, anger is a trick you play on yourself and others, to get your own way.
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
The ability of a person to relieve others of hunger is rated higher than the ability to endure hunger.
Thirukkural
You cannot cook rice well by just dreaming about rice.
Proverb
The water on the lotus is extremely unsteady; even so is life fickle in the extreme; know that gripped by disease and desire, the whole world becomes struck with misery.
Adi Shankaracharya
The One who knows the exact line of demarcation between prarabdh (effect of past life karma) and purusharth (effort that charges karma) is the Gnani (the enlightened One).
Dada Bhagwan
God won't come to us in front of the eyes, but when your devotion is true, you will feel the God all around you.
Surdas
Tapasya teaches us the power of perseverance and determination in achieving our goals.
Annonymous
I have always believed and still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Hermann Hesse
Never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real. Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Time can dull the sharpest ambition.
Ramayana
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
Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.
Mahavira
Useful, courteous, and pleasant words (Vani) bring happiness and prosperity.
Thirukkural
Where the light of the undying Sun shines, the light of burning lamp seems insignificant. By Guru's grace, I know this. Servant Namdev is absorbed in Celestial Lord.
Saint Namdev
I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
John Ruskin
Remember that the greatest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong.
Subhash Chandra Bose
Human nature has both tendencies--Anger & Greed on the one hand and Love & Sacrifice on the other.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Every challenge has its own unique problems.
Kiran Bedi
There are some things that appear to be small. A Mantra, a Naam is so small and yet accomplishes such big things.
Morari Bapu

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