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Thursday, May 07, 2015

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

Saturday, December 06, 2008

Quotes on Perseverance

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer”.  -- Albert Einstein

"It is to the one who endures that the final victory comes”.  -- Anonymous

"Patience and perseverance have a magical affect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish”.  -- John Quincy Adams

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time”. -- Thomas Alva Edison

"Victory belongs to the most persevering”. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

"No road is too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; and no honours are too distant for the man who prepares himself for them with patience”.  -- Bruyere

"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling”.
-- Lucretius

“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul”.  -- Douglas MacArthur


"There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream."
- Anonymous

"Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."   -- Samuel Johnson

Quotes on Leadership

“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."
-- Harold S. Geneen

"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people". -- Mahatma Gandhi

"Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership”. -- Anonymous


"One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you".
- Dennis A. Peer

"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better”.  -- Bill Bradley

"Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves”.  -- Stephen Covey

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet”.  -- Theodore M. Hesburgh

"Leadership is a quality of those who earn the respect of others through the wisdom of the combination of their words and their actions”.  -- Walter Grant IV

"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves”.  -- Ray Kroc

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”.  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader”.  -- John Quincy Adams

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in others the conviction and will to carry on”.  -- Walter Lippman

"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