Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam
●“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”
● “God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.”
● “Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?”
● “Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.”
● “Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.”
●“To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.”
● “Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.”
● “Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.”
● Any country is as good as its citizens; their ethos,their values and their character will be reflected in the country’s make-upAbraham Lincoln
● A house divided against itself cannot stand.
● The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.
● You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
● My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
● Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
● Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.
● Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
● Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
● Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
● He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
● I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
● “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
● “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
● “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
● For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
● What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world
● Imagination is more important than knowledge
● It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education
● The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
● Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen
● Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds
● Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish
● As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality
● Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.
● Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
● Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth
● The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
● Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.
● Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
● Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
● In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Anatole France
● Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
Anais Nin (1903-1977)
● “How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”
Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
● “The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.”
● “If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”
Aristotle
● Anyone can become angry–that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way; this is not easy.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
Abba Eban (1915-2002)
● “A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.”
Alexander Graham Bell
● When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
● “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
Arthur Calwell
● It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
Andrew Carnegie
● No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
Arnold Glasow
● One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
Aldous Huxley
● Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell.
● There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
● Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
● Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
● Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
W. Alton Jones
● The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.
Ann Landers
● Class has a sense of humor. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations. Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes. Class bespeaks an aristocracy unrelated to ancestors or money. Some extremely wealthy people have no class at all, while others who are struggling to make ends meet are loaded with it. Class is real. You can’t fake it. Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not attempt to look better by making others look worse. Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because he is comfortable with himself. If you have class, you’ve got it made. If you don’t have class, no matter what else you have, it won’t make up for it.
Alfred Edward Perlman
● After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
Ayn Rand
● America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.
The idea that ‘the public interest’ supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
● A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Albert Schweitzer
● I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
● Example is not the main thing in influencing others; it’s the only thing.
Albert Szent-Gyorgi
● Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Alexander Tyler Scottish Historian
● A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. |
