Fwd: Quotable quotes

[Manish S]

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton.

Things do not change; we change. - Henry David Thoreau.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. - Harper Lee.

There's no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution. - Betty Williams.

Nonviolence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be nonviolent. - Betty Williams

Dare to be honest and fear no labour. - Robert Burns.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. - Clement Atlee

lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. - George Bernard Shaw.

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another. - Charles M Schulz.

Analysing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. - Orison Swett Marden.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. - Rene Descartes.

The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralised by it, as by nothing else. - Anna Garlin Spencer.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher though, awakens your own expectations. - Patricia Neal.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. – Aesop

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us! - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. - Robert Lyndon.

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun? - Catherine Graham.

When thou sees an eagle, thou sees a portion of genius; lift up thy head! - William Blake.

Imagination is the secret reservoir of the riches of the human race. - Maude L Frandsen.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says, Leave no stone unturned. - Edward Bulwer Lytton.

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. -Juvenal.

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell.

The aim of education is not the acquisition of information, although important, or acquisition of technical skills, though essential in modern society, but the development of that bent of mind, that attitude of reason, that spirit of democracy which will make us responsible citizens. - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Loyd Wright.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. - Dalai Lama.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - Dalai Lama.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them. - Dalai Lama.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. - Dalai Lama.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. - Dalai Lama.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. - Dalai Lama

The purpose of our lives is to be happy. - Dalai Lama.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. - Dalai Lama.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.- Dalai Lama.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis. - Dalai Lama.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. - Mother Teresa.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. - Mother Teresa.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. -Albert Schweitzer.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. -Benjamin Franklin

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. - Francis Bacon.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. - John Ruskin.

What I Do Today Is Important Because I Am Exchanging A Day Of My Life For It. - Anonymous.

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

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. -Carol Burnett

This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything. - Scott Reed.

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. – Aristotle

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. - Arnold Palmer

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man. - Francis Cardinal Spellman

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. Carl Sagan

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis Stevenson

Nature does nothing uselessly. – Aristotle

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed. - Don Wood

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. George Saunders

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. – Aesop

Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. James Thurber

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Arthur Golden

Never have children, only grandchildren. - Gore Vidal

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. -Amos Bronson Alcott

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. - Helen Keller.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. - Anonymous.

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. - Jonas Salk.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. - William Arthur Ward.

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit. - Howard Mumford Jones

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. -Albert Schweitzer

The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within. - M K Gandhi.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter. - Henry David Thoreau

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell

Great decisions often take no more than a minute in the making. - Hugh Lofting

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. - Calvin Coolidge

There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights. - Mark Twain

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an oppourtunity. - Kahil Gibran

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. - Henry Ford

We can either learn indolence from the sloth or industry from the ant. The choice simply is ours.

The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. -Mark Twain

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. - Leonardo da Vinci

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. - John Steinbeck

Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results. - Dennis Wholey

If modern civilized man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically. – Christian Morgenstern

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw

 

"I read a lot and like arguing with people.", Amartya Sen, Economist and Noble prize winner, when asked how he likes to relax.

 “The broadening of my studies into philosophy was important for me not just because some of my main areas of interest in economics relate quite closely to philosophical disciplines (for example, social choice theory makes intense use of mathematical logic and also draws on moral philosophy, and so does the study of inequality and deprivation), but also because I found philosophical studies very rewarding on their own.”  Amartya Sen, Economist and Noble prize winner