Monday, April 4, 2011

Quotations-T,U,V

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1.     Talent is god-given- Be humble. Fame is man-given-Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”-John Wooden.
2.     “We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for that which we do possess.”-Mark Twain.
3.     “Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.”-Sophia Loren.
4.     “Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.”-Sydney Smith.
5.     "He who talks much cannot always talk well."-Carlo Goldoni.
6.     “Talk low, talk slow, and don’t talk too much.”-John Wayne.
7.     “The best thing about animals is they don’t talk much.”-Thornton Wilder.
8.     “Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.”-Saskya Pandita.
9.     “I know of only one bird-the parrot- that talks; and it can’t fly very high.”-Wilbur Wright.
10. “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”-Chinese Proverb.
11.  “Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourth Theater.”-Gail Godwin.
12.  “He who can, does. He, who cannot, teaches.”-George Bernard Shaw.
13.  “The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.”-Elbert Hubbard.
14. “If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.”~Russell Hoban
15. “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.” ~Clay P. Bedford
16. "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind yet, strange it might seem, I am ungrateful to those imputable teachers."-Kahlil Gibran.
17. "Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."-Albert Einstein.
18. "Chew your food: your stomach has no teeth."-Anonymous.
19. "I am thankful to all those who said NO to me.  It’s Because of them I did it myself.-." Einstein.
20.  “They can because they think they can.”-Virgil.
21. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”-William Shakespeare.
22.  “Our whole dignity consists in thought; let us endeavor, then, to think well: this is the principle of ethics.”- Blaise Pascal.
23.  “Anyone who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into a habit of lazy thinking.”-Albert Einstein.
24. “The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.”-Queen Victoria.
25. “Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.”~Albert Einstein.
26. “The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded.”  ~Hasidic Saying.
27. "You are not responsible for what people think about you, but you are responsible for what you give them to think about you."-Stanley Ferrard.
28.  "There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can."-Henry Ford.
29.  “The less man thinks, the more they talk.”-Montesquieu.
30. "We become what we think."-Lord Buddha.
31. “Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, and give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, and think of others.”-Norman Vincent Peale.
32. "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."-Albert Einstein.
33.  “As a man thinks, human mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.”-James Allen.
34. The ancestor of every action is a thought.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
35. “All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.”- Buddha
36. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”-Norman Vincent Peale.
37. “You are today where your thoughts brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”-James L Allen.
38. Thought without action is an abortion; action without thought is folly.”-Jawaharlal Nehru.
39. "Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."-Frank Outlaw.
40.  “When thought is brought to a focal centre by the use of the will, it acquired a thousand-fold the force it manifests under ordinary circumstances.”-C Alexander in Real Inner Secrets of Psychology.
41. “The greatest tragedy seems to be that we ignore the fact that thoughts alone create. Activities gain potency from the power of thought that feeds them.”-Swami Chinmayananda.
42. “The highest power is the power of thoughts. When your thoughts become firm like rock-solid resolution, even imaginations become reality.”-Unknown.
43. “We can change our experiences by first changing our thoughts. If our thinking is negative, we can drown in a sea of negativity; if it’s positive, we can float on the ocean of life.”-Louise L Hay in Affirmative Power.
44. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”-Norman Vincent Peale.
45. “A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.”-Lee Segall.
46. “Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.”- Sir Isaac Pitman.
47. Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again. Those who use time wisely from an early age are rewarded with rich, productive and satisfying lives.”-Robin S. Sharma.
48. “We never shall have more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.”- Arnold Bennett.
49. “We always have time enough, if we will but use it right.”- Goethe.
50. Time is life. It is irreversible and irreplaceable. To waste your time is to waste your life, but to master your time is to master your life and make the most of it.”- Alan Lakein.
51. Time is money”-Lytton.
52. “All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.”-Baltasar Gracian.
53. "He who has done his best in the available time has lived for all times."-Friedrich Schiller.
54. "When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work."-Jean Cocteau.
55. "The time is always right to do what is right."-Martin Luther King, Jr.
56. Time is the great physician.”-Disraeli.
57. "If you want a work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has not time."-Elbert Hubbard.
58. "The best thing to spend on your children is your time."-Louise Hart.
59. "There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften."-Cicero.
60. “We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”-Nelson Mandela
61. "One today is worth two tomorrows."-Benjamin Franklin.
62. "If any man among you seems to be religious and bridle not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain."-Henry James.
63. “It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.”-Arnold Bennet.
64. “Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”-Will Rogers.
65. “One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.”-Proverb
66. “The self-restrained man who moves among objects with senses under the control of his own self, and free from affection and aversion, obtains tranquility.”-Gita.
67. “There is no tranquility for him who does not preserve in the pursuit of self-knowledge.”-Gita.
68.   “He who would travel happily must travel light.”-Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
69. “They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.”-James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982.
70. “The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.”-Confucius.
71. Triumph can’t be had without the struggle.”-Wilma Rudolph.
72. “Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”-Oliver Wendell Holmes.
73. “A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.”~Cardinal De Retz
74. "Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour."-Robert Frost.
75. “With truth you’ll never worry and you don’t need to remember what you said, and never can forget what it was that you said.”-M K Gandhi.
76. “The true way to soften one’s troubles is to solace those of others.”-Mme De Maintenon.
77. “If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.”~Stopford Brooke.
78. “An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”~Mahatma Gandhi
79.  “To thyself be true, do what is right for you, and be your own person, do what makes your heart sing.”-Carolyn.
80. “The true man walks the earth as the stars walk the heavens, grandly obedient to those laws which are implanted in his nature.”~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911.
81. "Love truth but pardon error."-Francois Voltaire.
82. “If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything”.~Mark Twain.
83. “Always tell the truth.  If you can't always tell the truth, don't lie.” ~Author Unknown.
84. Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.”~Francis Bacon

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  1. “I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may-light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.”-John Constable.
  2. “Read, every day, something no one else is reading.  Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.  Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.  It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.”-Christopher Morley
  3. "Uncleanliness of the mind is far more dangerous than that of the body. The latter, however, is an indication of the former."-M K Gandhi.
  4. “We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet.”~Robert Brault
  5. "It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot."-Anatole France.
  6. "Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." - Malcolm Forbes.
  7. “All your strength is in Union, all your danger is in discord.”-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
  8. “There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”  ~Aldous Huxley, Time Must Have a Stop.
  9. "The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to        unlearn."-Gloria Steinem.



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  1. “If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain.”-Emily Dickinson.
  2. Don’t waste your time trying to be successful, spend your time creating value. If you’re valuable, then you will attract success. Discover the talents and gifts that you possess; learn how to offer those talents and gifts in a way that most benefit others. Labor to be valuable and success will chase you down.”-Albert Einstein.
  3. "Self conquest is the greatest of victories."-Plato.
  4. “Sure I am that this day we are masters of our fate that the task which has been set before us is not above our strengths; that its pangs and toils are not beyond my endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.”-Winston Churchill.
  5. “Neither god nor devil can undo the victory of the man who has conquered himself.”-Buddha.
  6. “Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
  7. “Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.”-Arthur Ashe.
  8. “One, who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.”-Lao-Tsu, Tao Teb King.
  9. Violence is the last refuse of the incompetent.”-Isaac Asimov.
  10. “Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.”-Francis Jeffrey.
  11. "Violence does not merely mean killing of living being; quarrelling and fighting are also violence. Criticizing, backbiting and condemning others are also forms of violence. Yet another form of violence is dishonesty in financial and commercial matters."-Jain faith.
  12. “Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”-Bacon.
  13. Virtue is its own reward.”-Cicero.
  14. “Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”-David Starr Jordan.
  15. "We are to practice virtue, not possess it."-Johannes Meister Eckhant.
  16. "Wealth makes a house shining and virtue makes a person shining. When one's mind is broad and his heart generous, his body becomes big and is at ease. Therefore, the superior man always makes his will sincere."-Anonymous.
  17.  “Where there is no vision, people perish.-Proverb.
  18. “The only limits are those of vision and the only limits of vision are those of action.”-Anon
  19. “Keep your vision and keep focused. Trust in yourself and keep going toward your goal; you will get there. You might not know how, but you will.”-Dyane Lynch.
  20. “It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.”-Helen Keller.
  21. “The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision.”-Helen Keller.
  22. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”-Japanese proverb.
  23. "It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is, and to think himself bound to uphold it, and to claim for it the respect it deserves."-Charles Dickens.
  24. “Listen to the voices inside of you; they will tell you what is right and what is wrong. They will bring you happiness and peace. If you don’t listen to them, they can create anxiety, discontentment and unhappiness.”-Bert Wilson.
  25. "As you would take good care to improve upon your physique, so should you improve your voice by hearing it. Good voice is indeed an asset next to your good look."-Anonymous.

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