Quotes

• Gandhiji  
  • Action 
    • Be the change that you want to see in the world.  
    • Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. 
    • Vivekananda 
      • Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached  
      • Every duty is holy and devotion to duty is the highest form of worship  
  • Truth  
    • Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.  
  • Minority Rights 
    • In matter of conscience, the law of majority has no place  
  • Non violence 
    •  I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. 
    • An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. 
    • A good end cannot be justified without good means  
  • Animal protection 
    • To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. The more helpless the creature, the more that it is entitled to protection by man from the cruelty of man. 
  • Courage  # Intolerance 
    • You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. 
    • Gita and Quran never fight in a library, but ironically those who fight over them have never been to a library  
  • Equality 
    • It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings. 
  • ENVIRONMENT  
    • There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed. 
    • JFK 
      • The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of the planet  
    • Sanskrit 
      • Paropakaya Falanti Vrikshah  
  • Forgiveness 
    • The weak can never forgive, forgiveness is the attribute of the strong  
  • Religion 
    • Religion is a personal matter which should have no role in politics  

• B R Ambedkar 
  • Women  
    • I measure the progress of a community by the degree of the progress which women have achieved  
    • Kofi Annan 
      • There is no tool for development more effective than empowerment of women  
    • Vivekananda 
      • “There is no chance for welfare in the world unless condition of women is achieved. It is not possible for a bird to fly on only 1 wing. ” … beautifully sums up the essence of power of women in leading not just their families but also their nation and the world  
  • Greatness 
    • Life should be great rather than long  
    • Anand film reference  
    
• Martin Luther King 
  • LEADERSHIP 
    • Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter 
    • Plato 
      • The beginning is the most important part of the work  
  • DEDICATION 
    • If you can’t fly then run; if you can’t run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you may do you have to keep moving forward  
  • ETHICS OF LAW 
    • Never Forget that everything HITLER did in Germany was legal  
    • One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws  
  • ETHICS of SCIENCE 
    • We have GUIDED Missiles and MISGUIDED Men  
  • SERVITUDE 
    • Not everybody can be famous, but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by SERVICE  

• CONFUCIUS 
  • Revenge 
    • Before you embark on your journey of revenge, dig 2 graves 
  • Alm vs help 
    • Give a man a bowl of rice and you feed him for one day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you feed him forever  

• Bertrand Russell 
  • War 
    • War does not determine who is right – only who is LEFT  
  • Intolerance / Curiosity / Imagination / Science / Education  
    • Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion accepted today, was eccentric one day  

• Einstein 
  • Education  
    • Curiosity  
      • Imagination is more important than knowledge  
      • Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination everywhere  
      • Education is one what remains, after you have forgotten, what you learned in school   
      • Mark Twain 
        • “I have never let my schooling interfere with my edcation”  
    • Ethics in Education 
      • Roosevelt– 
        •  ” To Educate a  man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society  ” 
      • David Mckay 
        • True Education does not consist merely in aquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature or art, but in development of character ”  
    • Benefits of Education 
      • Socrates 
        • There is only 1 good, knowledge and only 1 evil IGNORANCE 

• CHANAKYA 
  • TAX 
    • governments should collect taxes like a honeybee, which sucks just the right amount of honey from the flower so that both can survive.  
     

• LEO TOLSTOY 
  • Fundamental Duties 
    • Everyone thinks of changing the world, but nobody thinks of changing HIMSELF 
    • JFK 
      • Ask now what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country  
  • War 
    • To get RID of the enemy one must love him  

• GAUTAM Buddha 
  • Religion 
    • However holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do if you do not act upon them  
    • Sanskrit 
      • Sarva Dharma Sambhava  
  • Curiosity 
    • Doubt everything. Find your own light  

• WINSTON CHURCHILL 
  • Democracy 
    • Democracy is the worst form of the govt except all those forms that have been tried from time to time  
    • Aristortle  
      • Democracy is one when the indigent (poor) and not the men of property are the rulers 
  • Patience 
    • If your are going through hell. Keep going  
   
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• MARK TWAIN 
  • Happiness 
    • The best way to cheer up yourself is to try to cheer someone else up  
    • Aristortle 
      • Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities  
  • Honesty 
    • If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything 
  • JFK 
    • No  responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the higher standards of ethical behaviour 

• J F Kennedy 
  • Children 
    • A child miseducated is a child lost  
    • CONFUCIUS 
      • If you plan is for 1 year, plant rice; if your plan is for 10 years plant tress. If your plan is for 100 hears, educate Children    # Sustainable Development  
  • Strategy 
    • Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names  

• Benjamin Franklin 
  • Time 
    • You may  delay, but time will not  
    • Lost time is never found again  
  • Health 
    • Early to bed and early to rise makes a person healthy, wealthy and wise  
    • Anonymous 
      • Health is Wealth 
      • In a healthy body lies a healthy mind  

• Other quotes 
  • Equality, socialstic 
    • Tagore –  
      • Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high 
      • Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake  
  • Fear 
    • Roosevelt 
      • The only thing we have to fear is the fear itself  
  • Hard Work 
    • Thomas Edison 
      • I have not failed. I have found 10 thousand ways that won’t work 
      • Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration 
    • Jefferson 
      • I am a great believer of luck, but I find the harder I work the more I get it  
   
  • World Prosperity  
    • Thomas Paine 
      • Independence is my happiness; the world is my home; to do good my religion 
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  • INDIA  
    • Nehru 
      • ” India is a great civilisation ” because of its “unique ability to blend Unity in Diversity” in Discovery of India  

• Good Governance  
  • Kofi Annan 
    • Good Governance is perhaps the single most important source in eradicating poverty and promoting development  

• Pragmatism  
  • Sardar Patel 
    • It is a folly to ignore realities. Facts take their revenge if they are not faced squarely and well  

• EARLY ACTION 
  • Ancient – A spring from its source can be turned with a twig, but when grown into a river, not even elephant can cross it  

Ati Sarvatra Vajrayet  

Excess of anything is bad