To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen (1775-1817), English novelist and litterateur"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American poet and leader of the Transcendentalist movementThoughts lead to purpose, purposes to action, actions form habits, habits decide our character and character fixes our destiny.
Ancient Indian SayingBeing president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Lyndon B. Johnson, (1908-1973), 36th President of United StatesIt takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Warren Buffett, American investor, businessman, and philanthropistLet us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of United States and proponent of abolishing slaveryLet us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
Jawaharlal Nehru, (1889-1965), the first and longest serving Prime Minister of IndiaA grey head does not make an elder. .... Not by years, not by grey hairs, not by riches or many relations did the seers make the Law: He is great to us who has learning.
Quote from Mahabharata, ancient Indian epicThe fragrance of the flower is never borne against the breeze; but the fragrance of human virtues diffuses itself everywhere.
Quote from Ramayana, ancient Indian epicBelieve nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Siddhartha Gauthama aka Buddha, philosopher and founder of BuddhismAll that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (1921)When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller, American author and educator who was blind and deaf.It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of US and the only president elected for four terms.I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath Tagore aka Gurudev, poet, artist, novelist and educationist and the first Asian to be awarded Nobel Prize in Literature.There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mahatma Gandhi, India's father of nation, Globally respected philosopher and thinkerWhenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
- Mahatma Gandhi, India's father of nation, Globally respected philosopher and thinkerBig jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), poet, philosopher and transcendentalist.Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
-Lou Holtz (Born 1937), author, sports commentator, motivational speaker and former NCAA football and NFL head coach.He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
-Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) Transcendentalist authorFolks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.
-Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), writer, publisher, artist and philosopher.
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