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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

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I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my sisters and my brothers, and in them I found all three.
Baba Amte
Culture is widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Gautam Buddha
Every duty is holy and devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.
Swami Vivekananda
If there were no siege of death, the creature would be bound forever in the form of an imperfect living. Pursued by death he awakes to the idea of perfect life and seeks out its means and its possibility.
Aurbindo Ghosh
It is better to speak nice words (Vani) with a sweet smiling face than giving gracious gifts.
Thirukkural
Educate Agitate Organise
B R Ambedkar
Our secret weapon is nationalism. To have nationhood, which is a sign of maturity, is greater than any weapons in the world.
Ho Chi Minh
A serpent nursed on milk will still be poisonous.
Proverb
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
Endurance is the most difficult discipline, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Gautam Buddha
The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible - only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.
Osho Rajneesh
It is very easy to run away from everything, yet difficult to wake up; don’t run from your life, from your duties, from those around you; awake to them!
Morari Bapu
Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth but already to possess it.
Romain Rolland
We should choose simple ways of living... to live in harmony with nature by adopting simpler technologies and using natural resources innovatively.
Sonam Wangchuk
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.
Ivan Illich
There are lessons to be learnt from everyone. The wise person realises this.
Ramayana
...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.
Arundhati Roy
A socially backward people cannot develop a sound political sense and without a sound political sense there can be no democracy.
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
Any competition will make you more efficient, but that is not the only way of becoming more efficient. Efficiency is within you.
Kishore Biyani
There can be no distinction between man and man in a free country. All must have equal opportunities, equal rights and equal responsibilities. This is a difficult achievement in practice, but we must continuously strive towards that end.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Doubts, too, are a stepping stone to wisdom.
T L Vaswani
He who has a hundred wants a thousand.
Panchtantra
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
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
A fire cannot be extinguished by another fire. It is only water that can make a difference.
Sudha Murthy
He is the greatest democrat the world knows, for He leaves us unfettered to make our own choice between evil and good. He is the greatest tyrant ever known, for He often dashes the cup from our lips and under the cover of free will leaves us a margin so wholly inadequate as to provide only mirth for Himself at our expense. Therefore it is that Hinduism calls it all His sport lila, or calls it all an illusion maya.
Mahatma Gandhi
If the performance of Yajnas is the corner-stone of the work-portion of the Vedas, as surely is Brahmacharya the foundation of the knowledge-portion.
Swami Vivekananda
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
The power of the mind are like the rays of the Sun dissipated. When they are concentrated, they illumine.
Swami Vivekananda
Another life-lesson: until our minds are emptied, how will we receive?
Arun Shourie
The human body is the greatest temple of God.
Swami Brahmananda
The days when you don't want to are the days when you have to if you want to reach your goal.
Jay Shetty
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
A word spoken in wrath is the sharpest sword; covetousness is the deadliest poison; passion is the fiercest fire; ignorance is the darkest night.
Gautam Buddha
Men of righteous conduct (aacharan) never utter evil words even by a slip of the tongue.
Thirukkural
Death is as necessary for a man's growth as life itself.
Mahatma Gandhi
The man who sows must himself eat the fruit.
Guru Nanak
And did the thought never come to you that you are also subject to decay, that you also cannot escape it?
Gautam Buddha
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore
If there is strength in the public, they shall get whatever they need.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Meeting the deadline is not good enough. Beating the deadline is my expectation.
Dhirubhai Ambani
Struggle is the law of progress.
Lala Lajpat Rai
You go into the battle with your strength.
Anand Mahindra
Our mind is like a garden which can either be intelligently cultivated or be allowed to run wild.
R K Murti
If you want to walk fast, walk alone. If you want to walk far, walk together.
Ratan Tata
To discover what is true demands freedom from tradition, which means freedom from all fears.
J Krishnamurthi
Sincerity is the sum of all moral qualities.
B R Ambedkar
It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
Travel only with the equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
Dhammapada
We want deeper sincerity of motive, greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Sarojini Naidu
There is diversity and plurality in life but we have always attempted to discover the unity behind them.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
The more you expect from fate, the more it will disappoint you, have faith in karma, you will always get more than your expectations.
Annonymous
Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Jaya Kishori
Discipline is the code of conduct of decent living.
Sam Maenkshaw
Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about their success.
Nelson Mandela
Kindness costs nothing, but its value is immesureable. Spread kindness wherever you go, for it has the power to change lives.
Sudha Murthy
Only if you are a buffalo you can eat even on a full stomach.
Proverb
Don't look over mind's cravings. Rather overlook them.
Amogh Lila Das
The Muslims are the flesh of our flesh and blood of our blood.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include freedom to make mistakes.
Bhagat Singh
The only alternative to co-existence is co-destruction.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Einstein
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
Even if I die in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood…will contribute to the growth of this nation and it make it a strong and dynamic country.
Indira Gandhi
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
Maha means one who destroys three kinds of M's: mada (ego), madan (desires), matsar (jealousy).
Morari Bapu
No virtue is equal to the good of others and no vice greater than hurting others.
Tulsi Das
A contented mind is a continual feast.
Proverb
The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.
Arvind Adiga
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
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
B R Ambedkar
Talent accompanies with good attitude makes one happliy malleable.
Amogh Lila Das
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
Aurbindo Ghosh
Those with untiring and unfailing efforts will conquer even the unyielding fate.
Thirukkural
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Jean-jacques Rousseau
Fire and straw cannot agree.
Proverb
Keep in mind only the thoughts you want to happen, thoughts are seeds and events are their fruits.”
B K Shivani
Every ambition is a chain that binds us to this earth.
J P Vaswani
The wise despise the disgraceful act of killing, however great its gain may be.
Thirukkural
The Sanskrit name for a student, Brahmachârin, is synonymous with the Sanskrit word Kâmajit. Our goal of life is Moksha; how can that be ever attained without Brahmacharya or absolute continence? Hence it is imposed upon our boys and youth as an indispensable condition during their studentship. The purpose of life in the West is Bhoga, enjoyment; hence much attention to strict Brahmacharya is not so indispensably necessary with them as it is with us.
Swami Vivekananda
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going because a straight line even in ECG means we are not alive.
Ratan Tata
Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.
B R Ambedkar
By the establishment of continence energy is gained. The chaste brain has tremendous energy and gigantic will-power. Without chastity there can be no spiritual strength. Continence gives wonderful control over mankind. The spiritual leaders of men have been very continent, and this is what gave them power. Therefore the Yogi must be continent.
Swami Vivekananda
The contented man looks into his own heart to find total peace.
Ramayana
Don't be afraid to dream big, but remember to work hard to achieve those dreams.
Jaya Kishori
Design is not what it looks like and feel like. Design it how it works.
Steve Jobs
As you go forgetting yourself materially, just in the same proportion do spiritual peace and spiritual powers flow in towards you.
Virchand Gandhi
Every challenge has its own unique problems.
Kiran Bedi
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates
I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
John Ruskin
All unenlightened persons produce sufferings. Having become deluded, they produce and reproduce sufferings, in this endless world.
Mahavira
All human beings are our brothers and sisters. Working for their welfare is obligatory for Muslims.
Syed Ahmed Khan
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Swami Vivekananda
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
If we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.
Malala Yousafzai
Sages say that the path of wisdom is narrow and difficult to tread, as narrow as the edge of a razor.
Upanishad
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

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