On winning ...

Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. - Jim Harbaugh

Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work. - David Grayson

Winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else. - Vince Lombardi

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. - Richard Baker

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared. - Sparky Anderson

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. - Judy Garland

On age and ...

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. - Muhammad Ali

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. 

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. - Lou Holtz

When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have. - Stephen Hawking

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. - Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Concentrate on your strengths instead of your weaknesses, on your powers instead of your problems. - Paul J. Meyer

Life ...

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by. - Lou Holtz

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. - Michael Jordan


Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong. - Unknown

Persistent hard work pays ...

No one rises suddenly in the world, not even the sun.

Words of Albert Einstein ...

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

God doesn't play dice.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding.

The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. My religiosity consists in a humble admiratation of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not for God.

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

Inspirations from George Bernard Shaw ...

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

There are two tragedies in life: one is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Wisdom From Aristotle ...

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

On love and other things ...

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers?

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first.

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Have you ever noticed?Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a moron.

I'm not into working out.My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love
They think they can make fuel from horse manure. Now I don't know if your car will be able to get thirty miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage.They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you'

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Man always dies before he is fully born.

Some more wisdom from George Bernard Shaw ...

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for a living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals revolt that they may be superior.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all, since armed injustice is the more dangerous, meant to be used by intelligence and virtue, he is the most unholy and savage of all animals, and the worst of full of lust and gluttony.

Quotes that inspire...

From Mahatma Gandhi:

• You must be the change you want to see in the world.
• In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
• It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
• Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
• I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
• Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
• Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
• As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
• Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
• Hate the sin, love the sinner.

From Mark Twain:

• Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
• He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.
• Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
• Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
• Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
• I am different from [George] Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.
• Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
• It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
• Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.
• One learns through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
• Most people regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
• A crank is someone with a new idea - until it catches on.
• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
• Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
• Drag your thoughts away from your troubles ... by the ears, by the heels or any other way you can manage it.
• Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
• Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people will always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
• There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
• There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
• A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
• The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
• It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces.
• When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
• The secret to success in life is to make your vocation your vacation.
• I'm an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
• Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
• Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
• Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
• Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.
• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
• If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
• When in doubt, tell the truth.
• It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
• Golf is a good walk spoiled.
• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
• It is better to deserve an honor and not receive it, than to receive one, and not deserve it.
  Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
• There are some people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
• I am glad I did it, partly because it was well worth it, and chiefly because I shall never have to do it again.
• The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
• Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
• The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
• The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
• The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

From Winston Churchill:

• I never worry about action, but only inaction.
• Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
• Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
• There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
• Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
• Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
• Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conversative, has no brains.
• I like things to happen; and if they don't happen, I like to make them happen.
• When I look back on all the worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
• I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
• There is only one duty, one safe course, and that is to try to be right.
• The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
• Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
• Perfectionism spells paralysis.
• If you are going through hell, keep going.
• A fanatic is one who changes his mind and won't change the subject.
• There are plenty of good ideas if only they can be backed with the power of action.
• I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
• It is no use in saying, "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Some more inspiring quotes...

• Tough times never last, but tough people do.
• If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if i may not have it at the beginning.
• You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
• Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
• Your aspirations are your possibilities.
• Everyone has the power to make others happy. Some do it by entering the room, others by leaving it.
• The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himslef positive results.
• Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
• Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
• Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
• Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.
• People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.
• A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
• If you dont like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
• We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
• To change and to change for the better are two different things.
• A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
• Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
• There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
• There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
• The time is always right to do what is right.
• Live your life and forget your age.
• Act as though it is impossible to fail.
• We tend to live up to our expectations.
• Do not regret growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.
• Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
• It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
• If you think you can do it, you can. If you believe you can do it, you will. If you trust you can do it, you will make a difference.
• An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
• A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
• Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
• A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
• Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
• Accomplish something for yourself, not others.
• Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
• Make your life a mission - not an intermission.
• Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you.
• Take the attitude of a student; never be to big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
• When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.
• It is not the position, but the disposition.
• Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
• Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help with man with the wrong mental attitude.
• For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
• Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.
• Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
• Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
• Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, Make Me Feel Important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
• I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
• Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.
• Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.
• Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
• I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
• I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.
• A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
• I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
• High expectations are the key to everything.
• Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."
• What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
• There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
• Attitudes are more important than facts.
• Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths instead of your weaknesses, on your powers instead of your problems.
• An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
• Dream as if you'll live forever ... live as if you'll die today.
• The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
• He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
• The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
• We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
• Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
• 99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
• The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
• Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
• Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
• We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
• Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
• Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life - facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknow and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.
• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
• We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
• Smile, it increases your face value.
• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
• Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
• Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
• A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all-he's walking on them.
• It's your aptitude not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.
• The greatest discovery of my generation is that a man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
• Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.

Chanakya's words of wisdom ...

• A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
• Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beautyand the youth.
• The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
• Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
• We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
• As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
• There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests.This is a bitter truth.
• Jealousy is another name for failure.
• A rich man has many friends.
• Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
• Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
• Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
• He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
• Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.
• The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a personspreads in all direction.
• There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
• 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.
• Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the resultsmight be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to thesequestions, go ahead.
• If you get to learn something even from the worst of creatures, don't hesistate.
• The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
• Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and the of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
• A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are troubled first.
• Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never giveyou any happiness.
• The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
• Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who worksincerely are the happiest.
• One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
• Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.
• Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.
• The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.
• Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
• The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
• The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
• There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
• Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

Some more inspiring words from George Bernard Shaw ...

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Swami Vivekananda said...

When I Asked God for Strength
He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face

When I Asked God for Brain & Brown
He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve

When I Asked God for Happiness
He Showed Me Some Unhappy People

When I Asked God for Wealth
He Showed Me How to Work Hard

When I Asked God for Favors
He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard

When I Asked God for Peace
He Showed Me How to Help Others

God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted
He Gave Me Everything I Needed

Some more wisdom from Swami Vivekananda ...

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. That is way great spiritual giants are produced.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin? To say that you are weak, or others are weak.
If money can help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.