Voice of Mandela: 20 powerful quotes

In Mandela's own words

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains.... Nelson Mandela

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela

There is no passion to be found playing small ... Nelson Mandela

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of lviing
Nelson Mandela

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination - Nelson Mandela

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination - Nelson Mandela

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere - Nelson Mandela

Aung San Suu Kyi


There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela

It always seems impossible until it’s done - Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

It always seems impossible until it’s done - Nelson Mandela
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit - Napoleaon Hill

The Top 10 Nelson Mandela Quotes | The South African

The Top 10 Nelson Mandela Quotes | The South African

There is nothing like... Nelson Mandela

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela

Let freedom reign... Nelson Mandela

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Nelson Mandela

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all - Nelson Mandela

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela

Sri Sathya Sai Baba: You must be a Lotus, unfolding its petals when the Sun rises in the sky

“You must be a Lotus, unfolding its petals when the Sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!”
 Sri Sathya Sai Baba

The price of anger is failure

“ To meet the great tasks that are before us, we require all our intelligence, and we must be sound and wholesome in mind. We must proceed in order. The price of anger is failure. ”

— Elwood Hendricks

16 Walt Disney Quotes To Help Guide You Through Life

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” —Walt Disney

Food cooked in water should not be used the next day; it becomes harmful.

Food cooked in water should not be used the next day; it becomes harmful.

Your time is limited - Steve Jobs

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. -Steve Jobs

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
Erma Bombeck

Jagdish Bhagwati on Amartya Sen

"You must ask Professor Sen, not me, why he will not engage in a debate with me, even though he has been invited to do so by others. After all, he is the one who used the phrase argumentative Indian"
Jagdish Bhagwati

Do Not Let the Behaviour of Others Destroy Your Inner Peace - Dalai Lama

‎"Do Not Let the Behaviour of Others Destroy Your Inner Peace" - Dalai Lama

Happiness comes from your own actions - Dalai Lama

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

A positive future... Dalai Lama

A positive future cannot emerge from the mind of anger and despair. ~ Dalai Lama

positive states of mind such as love, compassion, insight and so on

All the positive states of mind such as love, compassion, insight and so on, have the quality that you can enhance their capacity and increase their potential to a limitless degree, if you regularly practice them through training and by developing constant familiarity with them.
Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama: with intelligence and courage we will be able to achieve what we set out to do

DalaiLama

As human beings we have intelligence and courage. Provided we use these qualities, we will be able to achieve what we set out to do.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other  - Abraham Lincoln

A film is a petrified fountain of thought

“ A film is a petrified fountain of thought. ”

— Jean Cocteau

20 great quotes on Rahul Dravid - in.com

20 great quotes on Rahul Dravid - in.com: "1 Harsha Bhogle
He can play the delicate shots & booming drives, can hang in through periods without getting out

2 John Wright
He is regarded by the Australians as one of the mentally toughest players they have come up against. He is a tough task competitor. He is a wonderful cricketer for India, a great, great cricketer."

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India is a case of private success and public failure

Gurcharan Das
India is a case of private success and public failure - Gurcharan Das

Mahatma Gandhi has maximum quotations on Internet - The Times of India

Mahatma Gandhi has maximum quotations on Internet - The Times of India: "Mahatma Gandhi is known for many things but he has to his name the maximum number of quotations by any Indian on the Internet.

The Internet has a large number of sites which offer quotations on a variety of topics ranging from friendship, love, destiny, life, death, peace and politics. But the net has one site which gives quotations from people from all walks of life all over the world.

The site address is here and it features 106 quotations from the Mahatma"

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Where The Mind Is Without Fear by Rabindranath Tagore Classic Famous Poet - All Poetry.

Where The Mind Is Without Fear by Rabindranath Tagore Classic Famous Poet - All Poetry.

Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defence

Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defence, when it is waging wars of liberation it is sacred; when those of domination it is accursed.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love's overbrimming mystery

Love's overbrimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Collected Quotations Of The Dread Pirate Roberts, Founder Of Underground Drug Site Silk Road And Radical Libertarian - Forbes

Collected Quotations Of The Dread Pirate Roberts, Founder Of Underground Drug Site Silk Road And Radical Libertarian - Forbes

Money comes and goes; Morality comes and grows

Money comes and goes; Morality comes and grows - Sathya Sai Baba

108 Quotes of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

108 Quotes of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

108 Quotes of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

1. The greatest fear man can have is the fear of losing GOD's Love.
2. Too much food results in dullness of mind.
3. A language is as sweet as the tongues of the speakers.
4. Every experience that is drawn through any of the senses has an effect on one's health.
5. Love all beings; that is enough.
6. Discipline is the mark of intelligent living
7. When calamity approaches, discrimination departs.
8. A man's well-being depends upon his degree of contentment.
9. God is all Names and all forms.
10. Follow the Master, face the devil, fight to the end, finish the game.
11. Real happiness lies within you.
12. All things in creation are subject to the law of change, and man, too, is subject to this law.
13. Renunciation is the power of battling against evil forces and holding the mind in check.
14. The teachers of tomorrow are the students of today.
15. God is not to be spoken of as coming down or going up, since HE is everywhere.
16. Learn to speak what you feel, and act what you speak.
17. What is the unmistakable mark of a wise man? It is Love, Love for all humanity.
18. Each man carries his destiny in his own hands.
19. Whenever and wherever you put yourself in touch with GOD, that is the state of meditation.
20. Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.
21. Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.
22. Service springs out of LOVE and it scatters LOVE in profusion.
23. Ignorance is the most important cause of sorrow.
24. Once we surrender our mind to GOD completely, HE will take care of us in every way.
25. Have constructive thoughts, consoling words, compassionate acts.
26. Where there is FAITH, there is LOVE; Where there is LOVE; there is PEACE; Where there is PEACE; there is GOD; Where there is GOD; there is BLISS.
27. The end of knowledge is LOVE. The end of education is character.
28. LOVE is the scarcest article today.
29. Mine, not thine; this sense of greed is the root of all evil. This distinction is applied even to GOD! -- my GOD, not yours! Your GOD, not mine!
30. All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel.
31. The mind fixed in the awareness of the ONE is line a rock; unaffected by doubt, stable, secure.
32. LOVE lives by giving and forgiving. Self lives by getting and forgetting.
33. GOD is the doer; you are but the instrument.
34. The heart of man, which is now allowed to lie fallow, has to be ploughed by spiritual exercises like repetition of GOD's name.
35. GOD is neither distant, nor distinct from you.
36. What is meant by the phrase "to know GOD"? It means "to love GOD".
37. When there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there will be PEACE in the world.
38. The beauty of life depends upon our good habits.
39. Good company is important, it helps to cultivate good qualities.
40. You cannot see ME, but I am the light you see by. You cannot hear ME, but I am the sound you hear by. You cannot know ME, but I am the truth by which you live.
41. Be ever watchful to see that you strive to take in more and more of GOD into you.
42. If you honour your mother, the Mother of the Universe will guard you against harm.
43. The same current activates all.
44. GOD gave you the time, space, cause, material, idea, skill, chance and fortune. Why should you feel as if you are the doer?
45. Make the home a seal of harmony.
46. Have no desires to place before GOD, whatever HE does with you, however HE treats you, is the gift that HE likes best to give you!
47. Unity is divinity; purity is enlightenment.
48. Always respect another's opinion and another's point of view.
49. Food should not be too salty, too hot, too bitter, too sweet, too sour.
50. Reason can prevail only when arguments are advanced without the whipping up of sound.
51. Take failure and victory cooly.
52. There should not be any trace of dislike or distrust on the score of nationality, language, caste, economic status, scholarship, age or sex.
53. Your thoughts, words, and deeds will shape others and theirs will shape you.
54. GOD is ONE without a second.
55. The service of man is the only means by which you can serve GOD.
56. By eating flesh one develops violent tendencies and animal diseases.
57. The PEACE that pervades the heart can never be shaken for any reason; only PEACE of this kind is worthy of the name.
58. As close as you are to GOD, so close is GOD to you.
59. Immortality is the fruit of sacrifice.
60. The grace of GOD is like insurance. It will help you in your time of need without any limit.
61. When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil.
62. LOVE seeks no reward; LOVE is its own reward.
63. The joy that we cause in the heart of GOD is the only worthwhile achievement.
64. Do not get attached to worldly things and pursuits. Be in the world, but do not let the world be in you.
65. Truth has no fear; Untruth shivers at every shadow.
66. Be simple and sincere.
67. The mind sees separateness, LOVE sees unity.
68. God is the life-breath of every soul.
69. The only ache people have nowadays is ache in the stomach due to over eating and lack of exercise!
70. Being a good example is the best form of service.
71. Friendship is the expression of unshakable LOVE, LOVE that is noble, pure, free from desire or egoism.
72. Money comes and goes; morality comes and grows.
73. GOD first; the world next; myself last.
74. Try to conduct yourself in such a way as not to injure others.
75. Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.
76. Patience is all the strength that man needs.
77. With effort and prayer destiny can be attained. Start the effort.
78. You must welcome tests because it gives you confidence and it ensures promotion.
79. What is offered to GOD is totally free from all defects and imperfections.
80. Spiritual progress is right living, good conduct, moral behavior.
81. A nation that has no bridle on its sensuality, can never thrive our survive.
82. I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.
83. Teachers must be examples of LOVE and TRUTH.
84. Each country is but a room in the mansion of GOD.
85. We should realize that man has not only a mind which conceives thoughts, but also a heart which can put them into practice.
86. LOVE must express itself as SERVICE.
87. The wise are those who know the Self.
88. Whatever the trouble, however great the sorrow, persist and win by recollecting the LORD.
89. Man will realize his mission on earth when he knows himself as divine and reveres others as divine.
90. Devotion is not a uniform to be worn on certain days and then to be put aside.
91. When the road ends, and the goal is gained, the pilgrim finds that he has traveled only from himself to himself.
92. So long as you say "I am". there is bound to be fear, but once you say and feel "I am GOD", you get unconquerable strength.
93. Duty without LOVE is deplorable, duty with LOVE is desirable, LOVE without duty is divine.
94. When you kill an animal, you give him suffering, pain, harm. GOD is in every creature, so how can you give such pain?
95. When the magnet does not attract the needle, the fault lies in the dirt that covers up the needle.
96. When the people become good, the world will become good.
97. Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.
98. God is in you, around you, behind you, above you, beside you.
99. Of all the righteous acts, help rendered to those needing it, is the most righteous.
100. Surrendering the fruit of action to the Lord is real sacrifice.
101. My birthday is the date when divinity blossoms in your heart.
102. God is neither distant nor distinct from you.
103. What is offered to God is totally free from all defects and imperfections.
104. The joy that we cause in the heart of God is the only worthwhile achievement.
105. The acid test by which an activity can be confirmed as holy or sacred is to examine whether it promotes attachment or avoids bondage.
106. Education should build character.
107. Its is Truth and Truth alone, that is one's real friend, relative.
108. Faith is like our life breath. It is impossible to live even for a minute in this world without faith.

50 Quotes That Will Free Your Mind

50 Quotes That Will Free Your Mind

Margaret Thatcher quotes: 16 of the Iron Lady's most famous statements - Mirror Online

Margaret Thatcher quotes: 16 of the Iron Lady's most famous statements - Mirror Online

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others. by Kahlil Gibran

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others. by Kahlil Gibran

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar speaks at #Conclave13 Watch Live India Today Conclave 2013 - Reinventing Democracy - Day 2

Take failure and victory coolly.

Take failure and victory coolly.

Anji Reddy’s (DRL) favourite quote - “You are what your deep driven desire is. As is your desire so is your will. As is your deed so is your destiny - Vedas”

“You are what your deep driven desire is. As is your desire so is your will. As is your deed so is your destiny - Vedas” — That’s Anji Reddy’s favourite quote
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15 Inspirational Steve Jobs Quotes

15 Inspirational Steve Jobs Quotes

We must control our desires

We must control our desires

when you ask a woman her age

“ A youthful figure is what you get when you ask a woman her age. ”

— Anonymous

What clearly eye discerns as right

What clearly eye discerns as right, with steadfast will,
And mind unslumbering, that should man fulfil.
An act that has been firmly resolved on must be as firmly carried out without delay.— Tirukural

12 Great Motivational Quotes for 2013

12 Great Motivational Quotes for 2013

Inspirational Quotes by Sri Ramana Maharshi

Inspirational Quotes by Sri Ramana Maharshi
Sri Ramana Maharshi

Happiness is your nature.
It is not wrong to desire it.
What is wrong is seeking it outside
when it is inside. 

Rumi – “I have passed beyond all thoughts”

Rumi – “I have passed beyond all thoughts”

I don't want to be a man

"I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2))

Why men do need a government

Ayn Rand
‎"If physical force is to be barred from social relationships, men need an institution charged with the task of protecting their rights under an objective code of rules. This is the task of a government—of a proper government—its basic task, its only moral justification and the reason why men do need a government." | “The Nature of Government,” The Virtue of Selfishness, 109

No human condition is ever permanent

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
Socrates

Courage is the first of human qualities

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle

The best quotes from the royal wedding - Home News, UK - The Independent

The best quotes from the royal wedding - Home News, UK - The Independent: "'You look beautiful' - What Prince William seemed to be whispering to his bride at the altar.

'We're supposed to have just a small family affair' - Prince William jokes at the altar with the bride's father Michael Middleton."

Mahatma Gandhi top 5 quotes

Mahatma Gandhi top 5 quotes:

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    Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." -Peter Drucker
    
    
    "Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." -John F. Kennedy
    
    "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." -Epictetus
    
    "Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats." A. Branson Alcott
    
    
    Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.” -Warren Buffett
    
    
    "Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance" -Samuel Johnson
    
    
    "Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve" -Napoleon Hill
    
    I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts." - John D. Rockefeller
    
    Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone. -John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    
    All marriages are mixed marriages. -Chantal Saperstein
    
    Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances." - La Fontaine
    
    When you see a person without a smile, give them yours. ~Zig Ziglar
    
    
    "Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
    — Mahatma Gandhi

Ten quotes from Mahatma Gandhi.

“Where there is love there is life.” Mahatma Gandhi

“I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.” Mahatma Gandhi

“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.” Mahatma Gandhi

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Mahatma Gandhi

“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” Mahatma Gandhi

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” Mahatma Gandhi

“We must become the change we want to see.” Mahatma Gandhi

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” Mahatma Gandhi

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” Mahatma Gandhi

“A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.” Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi Action expresses priorities

Sachin Tendulkar scores 50 Test hundreds


Action expresses priorities.
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi: I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. — Gandhi "60 Selected Best Famous Quotes

60 Selected Best Famous Quotes: "1. You can do anything, but not everything.
—David Allen
2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
3. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
—Unknown Author
4. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
—Wayne Gretzky
5. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
—Ambrose Redmoon
6. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
—Gandhi"