My quotes collection 19

 

(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