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Living among beast of prey, one should have to arm oneself. Getting oneself to be clawed to death by them is not acting angelic but being a fool.
Premchand

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If you do not have a mission, no problem will occur, but if you do have a mission or task definitely problems of varying magnitudes will crop up. But problems should not become the master of the individuals, individuals should become the master of the problem, defeat it and succeed.
Dr Satish Dhawan
The vision of God is nothing more than the realisation and feeling of His presence, both within and around you, for God is an all prevalent spirit that permeates the entire universe. The worlds manifest in terms of name and form are not separate from Him because they are His own representation.
Samarth Guru Ramdas
The ultimate goal of human life is to attain knowledge of the self.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Death includes it all, all castes, all kinds. He is no man's enemy and no man's friend.
Ved Vyas
I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.
Baba Amte
Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
Tapasya is a constant reminder that we are capable of achieving greatness if we are willing to work for it.
Annonymous
Admiration usually follows shapes of surpassing beauty.
Kalidasa
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
The resolute will never allow grief to overcome them but will make even grief itself grieve.
Thirukkural
The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you.
Arundhati Roy
Woman is more fitted than man to take exploration and to take bolder action in non-violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.
Mahatma Gandhi
Desire in itself is not evil. Desire is an incentive to actions and stimulant to active life.
Zarathushtra
How beautiful is humble courtesy!
Rabindranath Tagore
Every duty is holy and devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.
Swami Vivekananda
Truth and Virtue do not necessarily belong to wealth and Power and distinctions of big mansions.
Raja Ram Mohan Rai
Life is a matter of choices. Live well, it won't easily go wrong. You can't change your situations, you can change your response.
Gaur Gopal Das
Nation First. Then your Guru, your Parents and finally your God! So, the nation should always come before yourselves.
Chhatarapati Shivaji
Wisdom comes not only from our mistakes but also learning from other's missteps.
Chanakya
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, But it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Gautam Buddha
Those who renounce ego and control the mind through penance are worshipped by all living beings.
Thirukkural
The world needs real-world universities, 'doer' universities. We're going to set up one model of it in Ladakh. And if it is successful, we hope it'll have a ripple effect from New Delhi to New York.
Sonam Wangchuk
Speak Less, Speak Softly, Speak Sweetly. Save Energy.
B K Shivani
The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is as good or bad as he imagines.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
In the past 1000 years whatever we have assimilated, whether it was forced on us or we took with willingness, cannot be discarded now.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
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
The heart has no language, it speaks to other heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
The worst enemy you have on earth can be found in the dark corners of your own mind.
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.
Sarojini Naidu
In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.
Shashi Tharoor
By practicing tapasya, we can cultivate a strong sense of discipline and focus.
Annonymous
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
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
Mother Teresa
If laziness remains in a man of nobility, it will make him the slave of his enemy.
Thirukkural
My greatest fear is giving performances. I feel I am responsible for the audience But I am also scared of them.
M. S. Subbulakshmi
The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
Paramhansa Yogananda
If you want to walk fast, walk alone. If you want to walk far, walk together.
Ratan Tata
The wealth of a generous man is like a herbal tree which serves as medicine that cures without fail.
Thirukkural
The old need the young so that they renew their contact with life.
Indira Gandhi
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
It is better to work out than rust out.
Sir M. Vishweshwaraiah
Give to the poor with a glad heart, just as the tree offers leaves, flowers, shade, fruits, and roots without difference. This is genuine altruism.
Gyaneshwar
Remember that the greatest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong.
Subhash Chandra Bose
Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Jaya Kishori
My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Being grateful has limitations, No man can be greatful at the cost of his dignity, No woman at the cost of her chastity and No country at the cost of its freedom.
B R Ambedkar
The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.
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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
Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Swami Vivekananda
Depth of friendship doesn not depend upon length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore
Civilazations are not built of machines but of values.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Compassion is the greatest wealth. Even the worst of men possesses worldly wealth.
Thirukkural
Aimlessness leads to shamelessness.
Amogh Lila Das
Courtesy affords peace while discourtesy causes impairment.
Bhai Gurdas
In simplicity lies the entire glory of the world!
Mahatma Gandhi
An effective leader is able to put himself in others' shoes and see things from their point of view.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.
Gautam Buddha
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
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
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
When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
Malala Yousafzai
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
Audrey Hepburn
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Einstein
The government's money is the people's money. Make effective policies for the benefit of the people.
Anna Hazare
Blessed that I am born to this land, and that I have the luck to love her.
Rabindranath Tagore
We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime wield the implements that they use either to dig the earth or to shovel the earth. I can't carry the loads. That's extremely specialized. But they are called unskilled, and I am called skilled because I can write with the pen. I cannot accept this. I find it extremely non-egalitarian to say they are unskilled and I am skilled. It's only a way of looking at it. Knowledge is also like that.
Aruna Roy
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
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Jean-jacques Rousseau
A disciple (shishya) should reach the Master in a spirit of humble adoration and complete surrender, with a passionate urge to know and with an indomitable will to suffer any amount of difficulties in living the life of retirement and privations.
Swami Chinmayananda
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually,and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Swami Vivekananda
Debt, enmity and murder have to be atoned for. There is no escape.
Sai Baba
Those who endure insults are better than those who do penance by fasting.
Thirukkural
The most beautiful moments in life are when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Company's size doesn't matter. Credibility does.
Anand Mahindra
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world will cry and you will rejoice.
Kabir
After taking a well-considered decision it is extremely harmful to delay the action.
Thirukkural
Intellectual beauty is indeed, the highest kind of beauty.
Dr C V Raman
Mode of completion, obstacles and profit should be measured well before venturing into an action.
Thirukkural
There is no ladder to climb - there is only the first step, and the first step is the everlasting step.
J Krishnamurthi
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor and more unashamed conversation.
Glenn Close
The best thing about being an entrepreneur is the opportunities are endless. And the sky is the limit. And it is great fun.
Karan Bilimoria
The loans that we take carry simple interest, but the deterioration of character goes on with compound interest.
C Rajagopalachari
The wise despise the disgraceful act of killing, however great its gain may be.
Thirukkural
Knowledge gives us power, love gives us fullness.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
Mother Teresa
That mind which is attracted to more than one being can never reach the goal.
Swami Trigunatitananda
With every book you buy, you add a millimeter to your mental stature.
Lala Har Dayal Mathur
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
He who does not jump into the floods does not have to worry about drowning. He who follows the standards of health will live a long and healthy life. Similarly, one who would not entertain the sensation of “I” (Ahankar) on all occasions of activity and non-activity will have no dread in this world. How can dread arise when a sense of unity has dawned and everyone else looks to be a part of one’s self?
Gyaneshwar
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
Man's life is like an egg in the hands of an infant.
Proverb
Books are the means by which we build bridges between cultures.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Those who sit idly in the expectation of God's help are great fools.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
When men of dignity speak useless words, they lose their greatness and esteem.
Thirukkural
Rain harvesting should be made mandatory and should be made more systematic to ensure that every drop of rain is preserved.
M S Swaminathan
The human soul travels from the law to love, from discipline to freedom, from the moral place to the spiritual plane.
Rabindranath Tagore
I am formless and everywhere. I am in everything. I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space. All that you see, taken together, is Myself. I do not shake or move.
Sai Baba
The true Indian civilization is in the Indian villages. The modern city civilization you find in Europe and America, and in a handful of our cities which are copies of the Western cities and which were built for the foreigner, and by him. But they cannot last. It is only the handicraft civilization that will endure and stand the test of time. But it can do so only if we can correlate the intellect with the hand.
Mahatma Gandhi

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