This document contains a collection of quotes from various well-known individuals on a variety of topics such as vision, circumstances, imagination, duty, patience, optimism, wisdom, success, anger, time, leadership, creativity, mistakes, friends, and more. The quotes provide insightful perspectives and words of advice related to different aspects of life.
2. A word from Compiler
Since my childhood I am fond of collecting
sayings & quotes of well known personalities.
This prompted me to think of Life realities,
Happiness, Sorrow, Problems, Relations etc.
These sayings can help us in case of need.
Spandane
3. Vision
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
-----Jonathan Swift.
4. Circumstances
Circumstances are the rulers of the
weak; they are but the instruments of the
wise.
---- Samuel Lover
5. Imagination
Imagination is more important than
knowledge.
------Albert Einstein.
6. Improvement
If you try to improve another person by
setting a good example…then you are
really improving two people.
----A Saying
7. Duty
Every duty is holy and devotion to duty is
the highest form of worship of god.
----Swami Vivekananda
8. Patience
Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.
-----Rousseau.
9. Optimist
Optimist sees opportunity in calamity,
Pessimist finds calamity in opportunity.
---A Saying
10. Wise man
A prudent person profits from personal
experience, a wise man from the
experience of others.
----Dr. Joseph Collons.
11. Right
Give to every other human being every
right that you claim for yourself.
---Thomas Paine.
12. Success
Success goes to those who dare and act, it
seldom goes to the timid.
---Jawaharlal Nehru.
13. Angry
Be angry with none except your own
weakness.
---Meher Baba.
14. Time
Time is the scarcest resources and unless
it is managed, nothing can be managed.
---Peter Drucker.
15. Light
There are two ways of spreading the
light; to be the candle or the mirror that
reflects it.
---Edith Wharton.
16. Drive
It is easy to drive people; what is hard is
to lead them.
-----Tagore.
17. Stupid & Intelligent
The trouble with the world is that the
stupid are cocksure and the intelligent
full of doubt.
-----Bertrand Russel.
18. Decision making
It’s not hard to make decisions when you
know what your values are.
----Roy Disney.
19. Duty
Duty is a very personal thing…It is what
comes from knowing the need to take
action….and not just a need to urge
others to do something.
----Mother Teresa.
20. Mistake
He who makes mistake and fails to
correct it…makes another.
----A Saying.
21. Soul
I will permit no man to narrow and
degrade my soul by making me hate him.
--- Booker T. Washington.
22. Involvement
Ask less often, “What’s in it for me?”
and ask often, “What’s in me for it?”
Dr. john Ed Mathison.
23. Dream
If you can dream it, you can do it.
---Walt Disney.
24. Creativity
Creativity is finding new things …. Or
expressing old truths in new ways.
---- Roger Vol Oech.
25. Beginning & End
What the caterpiller calls “the end” the
butterfly calls “ the beginning”.
---A Saying.
26. Curiosity
Curiosity keeps us moving forward,
exploring, experimenting, opening new
doors.
----Walt Disney.
27. Mind
Man’s mind once stretched by a new
idea….never regains its original
dimension.
---Oliver Wendell Holmes.
28. Winners
Winners do not do different things, they
do things differently.
----A Saying.
29. Discipline
Discipline is the refining fire by which
talent becomes ability.
---Roy Smith.
30. Death
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The
greatest loss is what dies inside us while
we live.
---Cousins.
31. Growth
If you play safe in life, you have decided
that you don’t want to grow any more.
A Saying.
32. Cost & Quality
The cost is long forgotten but the quality
is remembered forever.
---A Saying.
33. Right & fight
Right is might, but no one wins who does
not fight.
----A Saying.
34. Life
The measure of life is in its excellence,
not in it’s length.
---Plato.
35. Life
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or
duties, but of little things, in which smiles
and kindness, and small obligations given
habitually, are what preserve the heart
and secure comfort.
---Sir Humphry Davy
36. Action
Repeat & Reform now. For tomorrow
will be too late.
---George Bernard Shaw.
37. Evil persons
All evil people are alike; they keep
postponing the day of becoming good.
----K. L. Kark.
38. Wise man
A wise man’s tongue is a shield, not a
sword.
----Proverb.
39. Rich
He is rich who has such property that he
desires nothing beyond.
----Cicero.
40. Kindness
Kindness is the language which the dumb
cab speak, the deaf can hear.
----Bovee.
41. Progress
If we are to make progress we must not
repeat history, but make new history.
---Mahatma Gandhi.
42. Direction
The great thing in this world is not so
much where we are, but in what
direction we are moving.
----O. W. Holmes.
43. Life
I have no yesterdays, time took them
away; tomorrow may not be --But I have
today.
-----Pearl.
44. Mistake
A man who does things make mistakes,
but he never makes the biggest mistakes
of all -- doing nothing.
----Benjamin Franklin.
45. Punctuality
Punctuality is the politeness of kings and
the duty of gentle people everywhere.
----King Louis XVIII.
46. Change
Consider how hard it is to change
yourself and you will understand what
little chance you have trying to change
other.
---Arnold Glasgow.
47. Principles
It is easier to fight for principles than live
up to them.
----Alfred Adler.
48. Moderation
Moderation in temper is always a virtue,
but moderation in principle is always a
vice.
---Thomas Paine.
49. Example
People may doubt what you say, but they
will believe what you do.
---A Saying.
50. Improvement & Happiness
Be dis-satisfied enough to improve, but
satisfied enough to be happy.
---A Saying.
51. Planning
Determine that the thing can and shall be
done, and then we shall find the way.
----Abraham Lincoln.
52. Criticism
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle
enough to nourish a man’s growth
without destroying his roots.
----Frank A. Clerk.
53. Young
He who lives with his memories becomes
old. He who lives with plans for the
future remains young.
----Wankton.
54. Success
Success is never final and failure never
fatal. It is courage that counts.
----Proverb.
55. Action
Think like a man of action, act like a man
of thought.
-----Henri Bergson.
56. Work
Never leave till Tomorrow which you can
do today.
---Benjamin Franklin.
57. Success
For Success, attitude is equally as
important as ability.
70. Action
We think according to nature; we speak
according to rules; we act according to
custom.
Francis Bacon.
71. Action
He who can, does. He who cannot,
teaches.
G. B. Shaw.
72. Admiration
Things not understood are admired.
Thomas Fuller.
73. Admiration
We always like those who admire us; we
do not always like those whom we
admire.
La Rochefoucauld.
74. Anger
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, ad in the right way --- that
is not easy.
Aristotle.
75. Anger
Be ware the fury of a patient men.
John Dryden.
76. Appearance
Men in general judge more from
appearances than from reality. All men
have eyes, but few have the gift of
penetration.
Machiavelli
77. Belief
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to
be true.
Francis Bacon.
78. Past & Present
The present is breathing in & the past is
exhalation.
79. Humor
A sense of humor bridges distance
between sadness and joy.
80. Life
Brighter views of life comes from helping
others.
81. Talent
Let your talents leave a mark where it is
needed.
82. Today
Think of each day as a special gift and
unwrap it gratefully.
83. Memories
Memories connect us to the past and
guide us to the future.
84. Laughter
Laughter is the best tonic for body, mind
and spirit.
85. Peace
To find inner peace you must banish
inner despair.
86. Strength
In silence and solitude lies a great
strength.
87. Peace
Peace and tranquility are hidden inside
your own heart.
88. Achievement
Armed with hope and determination you
can achieve any thing.
89. Joy
Joy is an unexpected by-product of doing
something for someone.
90. Success
I have failed over and over again in my
life and that’s why I succeed.
Michael Jordan.
91. Friends
Friends are the family you choose.
Jennifer Aniston.
92. Blindness
Hate and mistrust are the children of
blindness.
93. Vision
A vision with no action is a dream; an
action with no vision is a nightmare.
Japanese saying.
94. Bore
Anyone who is bored on his own is
boring in company.
95. Leader
A leader takes people where they want to
go. A great leader takes people where
they don’t necessarily want to go.
96. Time
The most valuable commodity in the
world is time. Like an arrow shot from a
bow, it never returns.
97. Duty
A duty which becomes a desire will
ultimately become a delight.