Thursday, September 17, 2009

Great thoughts from great Souls…

Great thoughts from great Souls…
"First, be a man; if you do not success in that you can succeed in nothing."
-James A. Garfield.
"One need to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds."
-Mahatma Gandhi.
"Character, not brain, will count at the crucial moments."
-Rabindranath Tagore.
"Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatest trust upon them."
-William Shakespeare.
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
-G. K. Chesterton.
"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"
-Adam Smith.
"Generally the theories we believe we call them facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call them theories."
-Felix Cohen.
"Millions said the apple fell, but Newton was the one to ask why."
-Bernard M. Baruch.
"The powers of mind are like the rays of the sun dissipated. When they are concentrated, they illumine."
-Swami Vivekananda.
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."
-Joseph Joubert.
"Civilization like empire, fall, not so much because of the strength of the enemy outside as through the weakness and decay within."
-Jawaharlal Nehru.
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death."
-John F. Kennedy.
"Yesterday is a cancelled cheque; tomorrow is promissory note; today is only cash you have- so spend it wisely."
-Key Lyons.
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
-Rabindranath Tagore.
"Success is that old ABC – ability, breaks and courage."
-Charles Luckman.
"To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without hard work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born."
-A. P. Gouthey.
"The real test of power is not capacity of make war but capacity to prevent it."
-AnneOHare McCormick.
"If you would not to be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."
-Benjamin Franklin.
"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who need it most, always like it the least."
-Chesterfield.
"Action may not bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
-Benjamin Disraeli.
"When you change your behavior, you change your performance and you change your life."
-Anon.
"If you give what you do not need, it is not charity."
-Mother Teresa.
"That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful."
-Ninon De L’englos.
"True beauty consists in purity of heart."
-Mahatma Gandhi.
"There’s only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it."
-Proverb.

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