Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Quote .. a Wonderful quote

"Individual who does not know how to die, does not know how to live"
--Emerson {quoted in Discovery of India}

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit"
--Aristotle the great


"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."


"The acquisition of knowledge, or any achievement,
requires restraint, self-suffering, self-sacrifice."
--Hindu UPNISHADS


"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress."
States President Obama


"Those who aim high, have to learn to walk alone too"
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam {India 2020}

"Life is action
and passion."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935)
U.S. Supreme Court judge


It's kind of fun to
do the impossible."

Walt Disney (1901–1966)
Entrepreneur, movie producer and showman

"The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.“

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
Dutch painter
first career: art salesman

"If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late."

Lee Iacocca (1924 – )
Businessman and industrialist

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
American statesman, writer & scientist

"I not only use all the brains I have but all that I can borrow."

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
28th U.S. President from 1913-1921

"You don't need to push, they will recognize talent."

"There is no rocket science."

"Think twice before you speak."


"You can tell a man is clever by his answers. You can tell a man is wise by his questions."

Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006)
Egyptian novelist, Nobel Prize Laureate

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.“

Albert Camus (1913-1960)
French writer

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.“

Henry Ford (1863-1947)
American industrialist, inventor

“"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Swiss psychiatrist

A business is in business to… “Maximize shareholder wealth"

Milton Friedman (1912 – 2006 )
Nobel Prize winner for Economics

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
John Wooden (1910 – )
Hall of Fame basketball coach

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
John W. Gardner (1912–2002)
Government official and activist

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
Chinese proverb

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
German physicist, Nobel Prize winner

"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
British writer - highest paid author in the world during the 1930s

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

---Anonymous

Last impression is first reaction.
--Saurabh Jain

Smile :) and the world will smile back at you !
--Anonymous

Padinga likhiga baninga hoshiyaar.. kheligaa kudingaa baningaa gawar..
--Nanaji

Padoge to aapku, naa mai ku naa baap ku..
--Nanaji

"The excess of virtue is a vice." ~
--Aristotle

"A ship is safest at the shore but that is not what it is built for"
--taken from profile of someone

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
-- Henri Bergson
French philosophers of the late 19th century-early 20th century

"BE KIND, FOR EVERYONE YOU MEET IS FIGHTING A HARD BATTLE"
--Plato

"Remember a correct decision need not be the best decision."

"If you are not ambitious, I will not be inspired by you."
--'Cho' Ramaswamy

"A good looks and sense of living gives an additional confidence to overall personality."
--'Neeraj Jain'

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
--'Anonymous'

"Confidence is the key. One must be very confident about what one is doing."
--'Yusuf Pathan'

"If A equals success, then the formula is _ A = _ X + _ Y + _ Z. _ X is work. _ Y is play. _ Z is keep your mouth shut."
--'Albert Einstein'

"Dreams are not those which comes while you sleep...Dreams are those which dont let you sleep."
--'Kabir's Orkut profile'

"A promise is a debt unpaid"
--'Orkut'

"If you have never failed, you have never lived"
--'Vishesh's status'

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts"
--'Orkut profile'

"Every society is judged by how it treats it's least fortunate amongst them."
--'Email thread Ashish'

"The important thing is not winning, but taking part; the important thing in life is not conquering, but fighting."
--'Lawyer Nariman'

"Great man never look at person's exterior, they think of his heart"
--'Narayan Hemchandra'

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  3. Good ones...

    I sort of don't agree on the "Padinga likhiga baninga....." quote. I believe that you cannot stop a motivated soul from learning. Eventually he'll learn and study.

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