A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi, social and political leader, advocate of peaceful form of protest and father of nation of India.If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson, American writer who pioneered the Gonzo style of journalism.Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.
Thomas Friedman, American journalist, columnist and author. He has won the Pulitzer prize thrice (1983, 1988 and 2002).The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth.
Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist, and noble laureate for physics (1921)A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet, visual artist, playwright, educationist, social reformer, and composerA revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
Napoleon Bonaparte, former French military and political rulerI don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood, academy award winning actor, film director, film producer and composerA nation's strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
Indira Gandhi, India’s first and only woman prime ministerDreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman, American playwright, novelist, and screenwriterDo not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, music and literary criticBusiness, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry R. Luce, American publisherIndia was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
Will Durant, American writer, historian and philosopherIn religion, India is the only millionaire the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.
Mark Twain, American author and humoristHappiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed
Storm Jameson, English writer and novelistOne isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou, US-based autobiographer and poetessTo live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Hugh Prather, Author and CounselorThe world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist, and nobel laureate for physics (1921)Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham, evangelist and spiritual advisor for several presidents of US.A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
Henry A. Kissinger, American political scientist and former US secretary of stateIt is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai Lama, exiled head of Tibetan government and Buddhist religious leader
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