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Friday, May 15, 2015

Victory & Winning

"Victory is sweetest when you have known defeat."   -- Malcolm Forbes
"Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."  -- George S Patton
"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?."  -- Vince Lombardi
"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."  -- Josh Billings
"Victory is winning others; not defeating others."  -- Ravin Pant
"First, they ignore you. Second, they laugh at you. Third, they fight you. Finally, you win."  -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise."  -- Anonymous
"Real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better"  -- Barbara Pletcher
"Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory."  -- Mahatma Gandhi
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance."  -- H. Jackson Brown
"Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing is to be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner."  -- Steve Irwin
"Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning."  -- Fred Perry
"The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results."  -- Edward De Bono
"There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win."  -- Elie Wiesel
"Victory is an art wanted by all, known by many but mastered by a few."  -- Anonymous
"Victory belongs to the most persevering."  -- Napoleon Bonaparte

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Quotes on Time

"For every sin but the killing of time, there is forgiveness”.  -- Sufi Saying
"Time is the cruelest teacher; first he gives the test, and then teaches the lesson”.  -- Anonymous
"He who has done his best in the available time has lived for all times”.  -- Friedrich Schiller
"Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator”.  -- Robert Orben
"The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast”.  -- Thomas Edison
"Lost wealth may be replaced for industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever”.  -- Samuel Smiles
"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong”.  -- Anonymous
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once”.  -- Henri Bergson
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend”.  -- Theophrastus
"Time and tide wait for none."  -- Anonymous
"Saying that we don't have time to improve our thoughts and our life is like saying we don't have time to stop for gas because we are too busy driving. Eventually, it will catch up with us"  -- Robin Sharma in 'The Monk who sold his Ferrari'
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go on."  -- Napolean Bonaparte
"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."  -- Leonardo Da Vinci
"There is never a wrong time to do a right thing."  -- Anonymous
"When work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only time that is behind the work."  -- Jean Cocteau
"Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water twice because the flow that has passed will never pass again."  -- Anonymous
"Let me tell you, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it is given to us moment by moment."  -- Amelia Barr
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory"  -- Betty Smith

Friday, May 08, 2015

Health & Fitness

"It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength."  -- Frank Duff
"Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise of health."  -- James Thomson
"To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth"  -- Richard Baker
"Every human being is the author of his own health or disease."  --Gautama Buddha
"A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools."  -- Spanish Proverb
“A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs."  -- Joan Welsh
"It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor."  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."  -- Mark Twain
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything”.  -- Thich Nhat Hanh
"Health is a large word.  It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man”.  -- James H. West
"Life is not merely to be alive but to be well”. -- Marcus Valerius Martial
"Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness”.  -- Zoroaster
"Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity”.  -- Goethe
"To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life”.  -- William Londen
"He, who has health, has hope. And he, who has hope, has everything”.  -- Thomas Carlyle
"Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning”.  -- Fred Perry
"When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow."  Tomorrow is disease”.  -- V.L. Allineare
"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver”.  -- Anonymous
"Health is the dynamic expression of life”.  -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
"Nature, time and patience are three great physicians”.  -- H. G. Bohn

Thursday, May 07, 2015

Quotations on Change

"The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."  -- Grace Hopper
 
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."  -- Douglas Noel Adams
 
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."  -- Aldous Huxley
 
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."  -- Maria Robinson
 
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."  -- Winston Churchill
 
"If form is temporary and class is permanent, change is constant."  -- Anonymous
 
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."  -- Jimmy Dean
 
"Be the change you want to see in the world."  -- Mohandas Gandhi
 
"Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant."  -- Anthony J. D’ Angelo
 
"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations form Chanakya


"A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first."

"Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous."

"The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody! It will destroy you."

"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."

"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, what the results might be and will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."

"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."

"Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest."

"The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."

"Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits."

"God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple."

"A man is great by deeds, not by birth."

"Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness."

"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."

"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."


Source: Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC -275 BC)

Friday, May 01, 2015

75 Inspirational quotes that will change your life


"You become what you believe." -- Oprah Winfrey

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” -- Margaret Thatcher

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." -- Steve Jobs

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, 'I’m possible!' ”  -- Audrey Hepburn

"Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions." -- Dalai Lama

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." -- Amelia Earhart

"If you see someone without a smile give them yours.” -- Dolly Parton

“It's never to late- never to late to change your life,never to late to be happy.” -- Jane Fonda

“If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.” -- Cate Blanchett

"Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” -- Drew Barrymore

“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” -- Bruce Lee

"Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans." -- John Lennon

"Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.”  -- Matt Damon

“We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams really do come true.” -- Katie Holmes

“I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.” -- Sylvester Stallone

“The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.” -- Jack Nicholson

“There are no regrets in life. Just lessons.” -- Jennifer Aniston

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.” -- Barack Obama

“The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.” -- Elvis Presley

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'!" -- Muhammad Ali

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." -- Warren Buffett

"Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation." -- Michael Jackson

"Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come." -- Ellen DeGeneres

"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome." -- Michael Jordan

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go." -- Carol Burnett

"Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance." -- Morgan Freeman

"Eighty percent of success is showing up." -- Woody Allen

"People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel." -- Maya Angelou

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." -- Lance Armstrong

“It always seems impossible until it is done.” -- Nelson Mandela

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” -- Jimmy Johnson

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any." -- Alice Walker

"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is." -- Vince Lombardi

"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on." -- Sheryl Sandberg

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at." -- Jesse Owens

"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." -- Gloria Steinem

"It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." -- Mae Jemison

"The harder I work, the luckier I get.” -- Gary Player

"Champions keep playing until they get it right.” -- Billie Jean King

“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” -- Arnold Palmer

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." -- Winston Churchill

"Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value." -- Albert Einstein

"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney

"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out." -- John Wooden

"Character is a journey, not a destination." -- Bill Clinton

“You’re only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.” -- Emma Stone

"You must be the change that you wish to see in the world." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country." -- John F. Kennedy

"Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that." -- Sir Alex Ferguson

"I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -- Bill Cosby

"Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other." -- Ronald Reagan

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world." -- Malala Yousafzai

"When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you." -- Kevin Costner

“The best vision is insight." -- Malcolm Forbes

"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case." -- Ken Kesey

"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision." -- Helen Keller

“The question I ask myself like almost every day is, ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?’… Unless I feel like I’m working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I’m not going to feel good about how I’m spending my time. And that’s what this company is.” -- Mark Zuckerberg

“Life is fragile. We’re not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you’ve got.”-- Tim Cook

“Without passion, you don’t have any energy, and without energy, you simply have nothing.” -- Donald Trump

“You don’t need to be a genius or a visionary, or even a college graduate for that matter, to be successful. You just need framework and a dream.” -- Michael Dell

“In business, what’s dangerous is not to evolve.” -- Jeff Bezos

“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.” -- Larry Page

“Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there." -- Venus Williams

"Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life." -- Angelina Jolie

"It’s about not accepting every challenge thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it’s needed you go for it." -- Sachin Tendulkar

"As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.” -- Al Gore

"Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.' " -- Al Pacino

"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy." -- Meryl Streep

"Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that." -- Ayrton Senna

"If you don't ask, you don't get." -- Stevie Wonder

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." -- Martin Luther King Jr.

"If it's the right chair, it doesn't take too long to get comfortable in it." -- Robert De Niro

"Fame doesn't fulfil you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary."  -- Marilyn Monroe

"You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk." -- George Clooney

"When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far."  -- Diego Maradona

“A Great attitude becomes a great day which becomes great month which becomes great year which becomes a Great LIFE.” -- Mandy Hale

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been”. -- Henry Kissinger

Thursday, April 16, 2015

7 Inspirational Quotes By few Self-made Men

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” -- Les Brown

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” -- Steve Jobs

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other reason. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” -- Barack Obama

"I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself."
-- Albert Einstein

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” -- Farrah Gray

“You have to dream before your dreams come true.” -- APJ Abdul Kalam

“Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.” -- Bill Gates