Quotable Quotes

Ability

1) Do what you can, with what you have, where you are

- Theodere Roosevelt

2) Ability is poor man’s wealth

- M. Wren

Achievement

3) Life is not made for happiness but for achievement

- Will Durant

4) Good ends can be achieved only by the employment of appropriate means

- Aldous Huxley

Action / Activity

5) Think in the morning, act in the noon, eat in the evening, and sleep in the night

- William Blake

6) Your business is with action alone not by any means with the fruit of action

- Bhagvada Gita

7) Strong reasons make strong action

- Shakespeare

8) We cannot escape from the effect of our acts

- Dr. S.Radhakrishnan

9) All good acts tend to make us pure and perfect

- Swami Vivekananda

Adversity

10) Adversity is the first path to truth

- Lord Byron

Age

11) We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older

- Eliot

Animal

12) Man is by nature a political animal

- Aristotle

 13) Man by nature is a social animal

- Raghava Raja

Appreciation

14) The very first appreciation of an accomplishment by the boss or a third party acts as the first-rate accolade to the achiever

- Raghava Raja

Atheism

15) Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man

- Sri Francis Bacon

Authority

16) If you want to know what a man is, place him in authority

- Nugoslow Provosy

Beauty

17) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

- Margaret Hungerford

18) Intellectual beauty is, indeed, the highest kind of beauty.

- C.V Raman

19) Beauty is the gift of God

- Aristotle

20) True beauty consists in purity of heart

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Belief

21) It is wrong to believe blindly

- Swami Vivekananda

22) The constant assertion of belief is an indicator of fear

- J Krishnamurthi

23) A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often

- George B.Shaw

24) Men willingly believe what they wish

- Julius Ceaser

Boldness

25) What greater pleasure there in life than to be bold

- C Rajagopalacheri

Book

26) I cannot live without books

- Thomas Jefferson

Childhood

27) Childhood shows the man as morning shows the day

- John Milton

Advice

28) Never give advice in a crowd

- Proverb

29) Act and then advise. Practice first Precept next

- Satyasai Baba

Abuse

30) The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse

- Edmund Burke

Ambition

31) Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven

- John Milton

32) A man without ambition is like a woman without beauty

- Frank Harris

Art

33) Art is not a handicraft. It is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced

- Leo Tolstoy

Asokan Wheel

34) The Chakra, the Asokan wheel, which is there in the flag, embodies for us a great idea

- S. Radhakrishnan

35) The Chakra, the Asokan wheel, reflects the cycle of life – ups & downs coming in a sequence

- Raghava Raja

Bird

36) One bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

- Nathaniel Woods

Borrowing

37) Don’t borrow or lend, but if you must do one – lend

- Josh Billings

Bureaucracy

38) Bureaucracy is a great mechanism operated by pygmies.

- Honore de Balzac

39) The best way to kill an idea is to take it to a meeting.

- Anonymous

40) It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results

- Walter Bagehot

Business

41) A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong

- Bible

42) Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails.

Oliver Goldsmith

Causes

43) Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap

- Bible

Choice

44) I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.

- The Godfather

45) To be, or not to be: that is the question.

- William Shakespeare

Citizenship

46) Socrates said that he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world

- Plutarch

Civil Service

47) The civil service is profoundly deferential- ‘yes, Minister! No Minister! If you wish it, Minister!”

- Richard Crossman

48) A civil servant doesn’t make jokes

- Eugene Lonesco

Committee

49) A group that takes minutes & wastes hours

- Anon

Compromise

50) Compromise is part and parcel of my nature.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Crisis

51) The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow

- H.G Wells

Criticism

52) Talking ill of the others in private is a sin

- Vivekananda

53) It is easy to find fault with others but not so easy to see one’s own fault

- The Buddha

Death

54) All that lives must die; passing through nature to eternity

- William Shakespeare

55) Death may be the greatest of all human blessings

- Socrates

56) Death is more certain than a birth in the case of every being

- Raghava Raja

Democracy

57) Ignorance reduces democracy to a Govt of the cattle, by the cattle and for the cattle

- J.B Kriplani

58) Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve

- George Bernard Shaw

Duty

59) Non- Cooperation with evil is a sacred duty

- Mahatma Gandhi

Fear

60) The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fate

61) Fate links the unlinked, unlinks link, it links the things no man thinks.

- Panchatantra

62) To eat and sleep is the fate of idlers and drones.

        Fate leads him who follows it and drags him who resists

- Plutarch

63) Let us fear God and we shall cease to fear man

- Mahatma Gandhi

64) We cannot succeed in anything if we act in fear of other people’s opinions

- C. Rajagopalachari

Flattery

65) Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver

- Edmund Burke

Food

66) Light food gives a quiet sleep

- Shri Aurobindo

Fool

67) A fool thinks that wealth is the only way to happiness

- The Ramayana

Forgive

68) The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong

- Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom

 

69) If your freedom hurts others, you are not free

- Swami Vivekananda

Future

70) I never think of the future. It comes soon enough

- Albert Einstein