Saturday, April 9, 2011

Quotations-A

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  1. “Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.”- Baltasar Gracian.
  2. “Pick a career that you enjoy and give you a sense of accomplishment. It’s not how many dollars you put in your jeans. The money can disappear quickly, but the sense of accomplishment doesn’t. You go to bed with it at night and you sleep like a baby.”-Gordon.
  3. “It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”-Morarji Desai.
  4. “My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.”-Helen Hayes.
  5. “Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year; a single day’s work an achievement for eternity.”-Gabriel Heatter.
  6. “The person who achieves must generally be concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.”-Corinne Roosevelt Robinson.
  7. “The truth of the matter is that there’s nothing you can’t accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you’re absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You’re willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what’s working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.”-Anthony Robbins.
  8. “One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.”-Walter Scott.
  9. “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”~Henri Louis Bergson
  10. “Like beautiful flowers, full of colours but without scent, are the well-spoken words of a man who does not act accordingly.”-Buddha.
  11. “The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”-Thomas Henry Huxley.
  12. "Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."-Theodore Roosevelt.
  13. “My actions are my only true belongings.  I cannot escape the consequences of my actions.  My actions are the ground upon which I stand.”  ~Thich Nhat Hanh
  14. “The man who is spiritually-minded and not attached to the fruit of his actions attains the tranquility; whilst he who is attached through desire to the fruit of action is bound by it.”-Gita.
  15. "Great actions speak great minds."-John Fletcher.
  16. "Man is what his actions make him. He rises by good actions, and falls by evil ones."-M K Gandhi.
  17. “Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”-Seneca.
  18. “One of the largest tributaries of the river of greatness is always the stream of adversity.”-Cavett Robert.
  19. Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”-Victor Hugo.
  20. “Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”-Seneca.
  21. "There is no education like adversity."-Benjamin Disraeli.
  22. “Never give advice unless asked for.”-German Proverb.
  23. "It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal."-Oscar Wilde.
  24. “The best advice is this:  Don't take advice and don't give advice.”-Author Unknown.
  25. “Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.”-Cicero
  26. “Don’t be afraid of going slowly, be afraid of standing still.”-A Japanese Proverb.
  27. “Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.”-Henry Van Dyke.
  28. "About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age."-Anonymous.
  29. "Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."-Dan Ingrams.
  30. “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”- Michelangelo.
  31. "Aim for the stars and you might reach the treetop."-Abraham Lincoln.
  32. "The strongest man upon earth is he who stands most alone."-Henrik Ibsen.
  33. “They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.”-Sir Philip Sidney.
  34. “Only a crowd can make you feel so alone.”-Mick Jagger.
  35. "He travels the fastest who travels alone."-Kipling.
  36. "Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied."-Niccolo Machiavelli.
  37. “Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”- Ben Franklin.
  38. “Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.”-Alfred A. Mountapert.
  39. Anger begins with folly and ends in repentance.”-Henry George Bohn.
  40. “The best answer to anger is silence.”-M K Gandhi.
  41. “To be anger is to avenge the faults of others on you.”-Pope.
  42. Anger is never without an argument but seldom with a good one.”-George Savile.
  43. "When angry count to ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred."-Thomas Jefferson.
  44. "Anger is a brief madness."-Horace.
  45. “He who angers you conquers you.”-Elizabeth Kenny.
  46. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.”-Robert G. Ingersoll
  47. “When you are overwhelmed with happiness, don’t make any promise. When you are overcome with anger, don’t answer any letters.”-Proverb.
  48. "It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people does not want apologies, and the wrong sort takes a mean advantage of them."-P G Wodehouse
  49. "Appearances often are deceptive."-Aesop.
  50. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.”-Lee Iacocca
  51. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”-Leonardo Da Vinci
  52. “We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.”- Robin S. Sharma.
  53. "People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."-Gilbert Chatham
  54. “Use soft words and hard arguments.”-English Proverb.
  55. "Behind every argument is someone's ignorance."-Louis Brandies.
  56.  Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”-Amy Lowell.
  57. "An artiste is always striving to get better. The minute he thinks he has become perfect, it is his death. Isn't all of life about a search? The deeper you go, the more you keep drowning. I feel I am still standing on the shore."-Naushad.
  58. “I am an artist at living- my work of art is my life”- Suzuki.
  59. "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."-Pablo Picasso.
  60. “If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.”-Orville Wright.
  61. “Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy:  the mad daughter of a wise mother.”-Voltaire
  62. "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference"-Winston Churchill.
  63. "Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."-Zig Ziglar.
  64. "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."-Lee Iacocca.
  65.  “Your attitude determines your altitude”- John Maxwell.
  66.   “A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”- Hugh Downs, Journalist and TV host.
  67.  “A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.”-Patricia Neal.
  68. “Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”-William James.
  69.  “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”-Oprah Winfrey.
  70. “There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”-W Clement Stone.
  71. “If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.”-Yugoslav Proverb.
  72. "All authority belongs to the people."-Jefferson
  73. "No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine."-A J Ayer.
  74. "Awake, arise and stop not till the goal is achieved."-Swami Vivekananda.

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Monday, April 4, 2011

Quotations-Index

Index

Subject
Page No.
1.     1. Ability.
2. Accomplishment.
3. Achievement.
4. Action.
5. Adversity.
6. Advice.
7. Afraid.
8. Age.
9. Aim.
10. Alone.
11. Ambition.
12. Angry.
13. Apologize.
14. Appearance.
15. Apply.
16. Architect.
17. Argument.
18. Artist.
19. Assumption.
20. Astrology
21. Attitude.
22. Authority.
23. Awake.

001
2.     1. Back
2. Battle
3. Beautiful
4. Become
5. Bed
6. Bee
7. Beggar
8. Beginning
9. Behaviour
10. Benefactor
11. Best
12. Biography
13. Bless
14. Belief
15. blind
16. Boldness
17. Book
18. born
19. Borrowing
20. Bottom
21. Brain
22. Brave
23. Breeding
24. Brevity
25. Bread
26. Brake
27. Burden
28. Business
29. Busy


3.     1. Capability
2. Capital.
3. Care.
4. Career
5. Celibacy
6. Censorship
7. Challenge
8. Companion
9. Chance
10. Change
11. Character
12. Charity
13. Child
14. Choices
15. Circumstances
16. Citizen
17. Civilization
18. Cleverness
19. Climate
20. Cloud
21. Comedy
22. Commitment
23. Common sense
24. Company
25. Compassionate
26. Competition
27. Complain
28. Compete
29. Complexity
30. Condemn
31. Confidence
32. Conquer
33. Conscience
34. Consequence
35. Contentment
36. Consent
37. Conversation
38. Cost
39. Courage
40. Country
41. Courtesy
42. Cowards
43. Creativity
44. Creature
45. Credit
46. Criticism
47. crown
48. Cure
49. Curious
50. Customer



                D. 1. Dare
                     2. Darkness.
                     3. Death.
 4. Debt
     5. Deeds
6. Defeat
7. Democracy
8. Deserve
9. Desire
10. Destiny
11. Development.
12. Differences
13. Difficulty.
14. Dignity.
15. Dinner
16. Diplomat.
17. Direction.
18. Disease.
19. Discipline.
20. Discover
21. Dishonesty
22. Dissatisfaction
23. Distress
24. Divorce
25. Do
26. Door
27. Doubt
28. Dream
                   

                E. 1. Eagle
          2. Earning
3. Earth
4. Eat
5. Ecology
6. Economy
7. Education
8. Effort
9. Ego
10. Emotion
11. Empowerment
12. Endeavour
13. Enemy
14. Energy
15. Enjoy
16. Enlightenment
17. Enthusiasm
18. Environment
19. Evil
20. Examine
21. Excellence
22. Excess
23. Excitement
24. Excuse
25. Exercise
26. Exertion
27. Experience
28. Expectation
29. Expert
30. Explain
31. Express


F.    1. Face
2. Fact
3. Faith
4.Fame
5. Fate
6. Fall
7. Failure
8. Faith
9. Familiar
10. Family
11. Fault
12. Fear
13. Feed
14. Feel
15. Fire
16. First
17. Flame
18. Flatterer
19. Focus
20. Foolishness
21. Forget
22. Forgiveness
23. Fortune
24. Freedom
25. Friendship
26. Future


G.   1. Gambling.
2. Generous
3. Genius
4. Generous
5. Gentleman
6. Get up
7. Gift
8. Give
9. Glory
10. Goal
11. Gold
12. Goodness
13. Greatness
14. Greed
15. Grief
16. Guilty


H.    1. Habit
2. Handle
3. Handsome
4. Happiness
5. Hard work
6. Harmony
7. Harm
8. Hatred
9. Head
10. Health
11. Heart
12. Heaven
13. Help
14. Heredity
15. Hills
16. Honesty
17. Hope
18. Honor
19. Humanity
20. Humble
21. Hungry
22. Hurry
23. Hurt


I.       1. Ideals
2. Ideas
3. Idleness
4. Ignorance
5. Illiterate
6. Illusion
7. Imaginations
8. Immoral
9. Immortal
10. Impossible
11. Individuality
12. Inferior
13. Inflexibility
14. Information
15. Ink
16. Injustice
17. Inquire
18. Innocent
19. Innovation
20. Inspire
21. Insult
22. Integrity
23. Intellectual
24. Interest
25. Invention
26. Iron


J.     1. Jealousy
2. Journey
3. Joy
4. Justice


K.    1. Karma
2. Kind
3. King
4. Knee
5. Knowledge

L.    1. Labor
2. Land
3. Language
4. Last
5. Laugh
6. Law
7. Laziness
8. Leadership
9. Learner
10. Lend
11. Lession
12. Liberty
13. Lies
14. Life
15. Light
16. Like
17. Limit
18. Lip
19. Listener
20. Literature
21. Loneliness
22. Lose
23. Love
24. Luck
25. Luxury


M.   1. Madness
2. Man
3. Manipulation
4. Marriage
5. Martyr
6. Matters
7. Measure
8. Meditation
9. Memory
10. Mighty
11. Mind
12. Minutes
13. Misery
14. Mission
15. Mistake
16. Moderate
17. Modesty
18. Moments
19. Money
20. Morality
21. Mother
22. Motivation
23. Mountains
24. Movements
25. Music
26. Mystery


N.    1. Nationalism
2. Nature
3. Necessity
4. Need
5. Neighbour
6. Neutral
7. Newspaper
8. Night
9. Nirwana
10. Nobility
11. Noise
12. Non-violence
13. Nothing
14. Now


O.   1. Objective
2. Observation
3. Obstacles
4. Old
5. Opinion
6. Opportunity
7. Optimist
8. Orator
9. Ordinary
10. Ourselves


P.    1. Pain
2. Painting
3. Pass
4. Passion
5. Past
6. Path
7. Patience
8. Patriot
9. Peace
10. People
11. Pen
12. Perception
13. Perfection
14. Personality
15. Perseverance
16. Plan
17. Plant
18. Pleasure
19. Poem
20. Politeness
21. Politics
22.  Poor
23. Population
24. Positive
25. Possessing
26. Possible
27. Poverty
28. Power
29. Praise
30. Prejudices
31. Present
32. Pressure
33. Price
34. Priorities
35. Prison
36. Proud
37. Problem
38. Progress
39. Promise
40. Property
41. Prosperity
42. Purpose



Q.   1. Quality
2. Question

R.    1. Race
2. Rare
3. React
4. Read
5. Reality
6. Reap
7. Reason
8. Recognition
9. Refuse
10. Regret
11. Reputation
12. Rest
13. Relationship
14. Religion
15. Repair
16. Repent
17. Reputation
18. Respect
19. Responsibility
20. Resolution
21. Revenge
22. Reward
23. Riches
24. Right
25. Risk
26. Room
27. Rule


S.    1. Safe
2. Say
3. Scar
4. Secret
5. See
6. Self-development
7. Self-esteem
8. Self-respect
9. Shadows
10. Ship
11. Silence
12. Simple
13. Sincerity
14. Slave
15. Sleeve
16. Sleep
17. Smart
18. Smile
19. Society
20. Softness
21. Sorrow
22. Spears
23. Speculate
24. Speech
25. Spirit
26. Sponsor
27. Spring
28. Star
29. Statesman
30. Step
31. Sting
32. Stream
33. Strength
34. Substitutes
35. Success
36. sunshine
37. Superstition
38. Surroundings


T.    1. Talent
2. Talk
3. Teach
4. Teamwork
5. Teeth
6. Thank
7. Think
8. Thought
9. Time
10. Today
11. Tongue
12. Top
13. Track
14. Tranquility
15. Travel
16. Trees
17. trials
18. Triumph
19. Trust
20. Truth


U.    1. Ugly
2. Uncleanliness
3. Unconscious
4. Understand
5. Undervalue
6. Union
7. Universe
8. Unlearn                              


V.    1.Vain
2. Value
3. Victory
4. View
5. Violence
6. Virtue
7. Vision
8. Vocation
9. Voices

W.  1. Wage
2. Wait
3. Want
4. War
5. Waste
6. Watchfulness
7. Water
8. Weak
9. Wealth
10. weapon
11. Wear
12. Well
13. Wicked
14. Will
15. Win
16. Wind
17. Winter
18. Wisdom
19. Wit
20. Women
21. Woods
22. Word
23. Work
24. World
25. Worry
26. Worship
27. worst
28. Write
29. Wrong


X.    1. X

Y.    1. Yesterday
2. You
3. Yourself
4. Youth
  
       
Z.     1. Z