(Collection of quotes by Turlapati Sambasivarao garu)
God grant me the
serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things
I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr
"Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other." -
Pandurang S. Athavale
You are never too old
to set another goal or to dream a new dream. - C. S. Lewis
"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine." - Lord Byron
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." -
Carl Jung
Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is
self-given; be careful. - Harvey Mackay
"Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason
unclouded by passion." - Pythagoras,
Good health and good
sense are two of life's greatest blessings. Publilius Syrus
Know or listen to those who know. Baltasar Gracian
Always try to represent yourself 'happy',Because , Initially, it becomes
your 'look',Gradually, it becomes your 'habit'& finally, it becomes your
'personality'!
Every man's life is a
fairy tale written by God's fingers. Hans Christian Andersen
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
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. ~
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Tomorrow GOD isn't going to ask:What did you dream ,think ,plan ,or
preach but He is going to ask: WHAT DID YOU DO?"Michel Quoist
"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the
healing of the world." - Marianne Williamson
"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which
makes you unique." - Walt Disney
He who seeks rest
finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. Dylan Thomas
A day of worry is more
exhausting than a week of work. John Lubbock
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men,
attended by love. Saul Bellow
If the king loves
music, there is little wrong in the land. Mencius
The great man is he who does not lose his
child's-heart. Mencius
"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in
pursuit of the goal." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
" - Bertrand Russell
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. Rosalind Russell
Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is
the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your
capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity,
creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength. James
E. Faust
Only great minds can afford a simple style. Stendhal
Life is too ironic. It takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to
appreciate silence & absence to value presence!
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These
three are your greatest treasures. Lao Tzu
There is no charm
equal to tenderness of heart. Jane Austen
I follow three rules:
Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. Lou
Holtz
My weapon is literature" - Chinua Achebe
Everyone has inside of
him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you
can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential
is! Anne Frank
If you have a positive
attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will
overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
Pat Riley
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without
trials. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True wisdom comes to
each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and
the world around us. Socrates
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. - Mother
Teresa
It is the nature of
the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is
most burdened. Philip Sidney
Far away there in the
sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up
and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
To see things in the seed,
that is genius. Lao Tzu
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or
architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. Samuel Butler
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George Eliot
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat
them is what they become. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a
striving toward God. Victor Hugo
Be sure your wisest
words are those you do not say. Robert W. Service
Love one another and
help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is
infectious and the greatest healing energy. Sai Baba
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. T.
S. Eliot
What is the highest
secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with
destiny. William R. Alger
Human relations are
built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact
science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about
it. Amelia Barr
Kindness is always fashionable. Amelia Barr
As my mind can
conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full
of little miracles popping up out of the blue. Louise L. Hay
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting
his neighbor's. Richard Whately
Calmness is the cradle
of power. Josiah Gilbert Holland
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on. Josiah Gilbert Holland
Faith is deliberate
confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the
time.
It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward
and the actual. Oswald Ch
To be what we are, and
to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Robert
Louis Stevenson
My thought is me: that
is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from
thinking. Jean-Paul Sartre
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving
thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
In moderating, not
satisfying desires, lies peace. Ben Hecht
Good actions give strength
to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. Plato
God wants man to
fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human
beings. Martin Buber
Knowledge is proud
that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. William Cowper
A life is not
important except in the impact it has on other lives. Jackie Robinson
There is no greatness
where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. Leo Tolstoy
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength... Eric Hoffer
Nothing stops the man
who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his
achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter
what your task may be. Og Mandino
There are two worlds:
the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with
our hearts and imagination. Leigh Hunt
If you asked me for my
New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am. Cyril Cusack
To be ambitious of
true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very
principle and incentive of virtue. Walter Scott
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much
you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you
don't. Anatole France
The improvement of
understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly,
to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. John Locke
The man who has no
inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. Henri Frederic Amiel
Everyone has been made
for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every
heart. Rumi
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. Thomas
Browne
Each man must look to
himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is
something molded. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly
recognizes genius. Arthur Conan Doyle
Excellence encourages
one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. George
Eliot
Imaginary pains are by
far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent
them because there is no way of doing without them. Emile M. Cioran
I love to think of
nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us
every hour, if we will only tune in. George Washington Carver
Small minds are
concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Blaise Pascal
Human relations are
built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact
science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about
it. Amelia Barr
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
Antoine Rivarol
I follow three rules:
Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. Lou
Holtz
Have a vision. It is
the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve
the impossible. - Shiv Khera
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a
rough exterior. Juvenal
If thou desire the
love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but
itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue,
nor strength, nor reason can prevail. Francis Quarles
The quality, not the
longevity, of one's life is what is important. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is the precept by
which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what
comes. Hannah Arendt
The knowledge of
yourself will preserve you from vanity. Miguel de Cervantes
The four
characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste,
and belief in the human race. E. M. Forster
Education is what
survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. B. F. Skinner
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Every great person is
always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all
things and all persons. John Ruskin
"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative
mind." - Albert Einstein
The people who
influence you are the people who believe in you. Henry Drummond
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you
have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of
love. Henry Drummond
"A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless."
Simone Weil.
",Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make your life."
"Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive." - Wilbur Wright
"Creativity is contagious , pass it on ." Albert Einstein
"I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it." - Albert Einstein
"Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive." - Wilbur Wright
"Creativity is contagious , pass it on ." Albert Einstein
"I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it." - Albert Einstein
