Never give up! NEVER! - motivational and inspirational

alues should define our behaviours

We often let our behaviours define our core values. Values should define our behaviours.
- John G Blumberg

patriotism

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism.
A venerable word, when duly practised.

Robert Walpole

best promoter of health

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Joseph Addison

Top 10: The Quotable Eric Schmidt - Digits - WSJ

Top 10: The Quotable Eric Schmidt - Digits - WSJ: "Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt will be leaving his CEO role in April. He’ll stay with the company as executive chairman but will turn the reins over to Google co-founder Larry Page.

What will we at Digits miss most about Mr. Schmidt? The quotability factor.

Over the past couple of years, Mr. Schmidt has been colorful and outspoken, particularly on the important issue of online privacy. Below, some of our favorite Eric Schmidt moments."

you have a spotless future

"Whatever the past has been, you have a spotless future." ~Unknown

there is only some purpose

There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood. ~ Deepak Chopra

The most valuable tasks you can do each day

The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.
- Brian Tracy

woven into the lives of others

Munaf Patel
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles

more man meditates upon good thoughts...

andaman

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Confucius

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
Germaine Greer

Find a job you like

“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

work and play

“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.” – Arnold J. Toynbee

Kites rise highest against the wind

Narendra Modi



“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”


Winston Churchill

Life stand still here

Aishwarya Rai

Life stand still here.

Virginia Woolf

When the going gets weird

Aishwarya Rai

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Hunter Thompson

dreams, goals and heart’s desire helps

Having visual images of your dreams, goals and heart’s desire helps manifest them in your life.
-- BJ Gallagher

If you would be a writer, first be a reader

Gayatri Reddy, DC

If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies.

Allan W. Eckert

Write against patterns

Shah Rukh Khan with wife Gauri 

Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!

Deena Metzger

An incurable itch for scribbling

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

-Juvenal

The best way to become more creative

The best way to become more creative is to create nothing.

Ilchi Lee

In a mood of faith and hope

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

Pearl S Buck

great step to knowledge

Adam Gilchrist

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge - Benjami Disraeli

Patience is bitter, but the fruit can be sweet

The Ashes 2010-11: England wrap up series win over Australia in style

Patience is bitter, but the fruit can be sweet.
- Benjamin Franklin

real victory

“In ages long past a great son of India, the Buddha, said that the
only real victory was one in which all were equally victorious and
there was defeat for no one. In the world today that is the only
practical victory; any other way will lead to disaster”.
Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru speaking on „Disputes and Discord‟ in the
United Nations General Assembly on October 3, 1960

Khalil Gibran quotes

Khalil Gibran: Biography from Answers.com

Khalil Gibran

(born Jan. 6, 1883, Bsharri, Leb. — died April 10, 1931, New York, N.Y., U.S.) Lebanese-born U.S. philosophical essayist, novelist, poet, and artist. He immigrated with his parents to Boston in 1895 and later settled in New York City. His works, written in both Arabic and English, are full of lyrical outpourings and express his deeply religious and mystical nature. The Prophet (1923), a book of poetic essays, achieved cult status among American youth for several generations.

Quotes:

"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."

"Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them."

"The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain."

"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."

"One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night."

"Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse."

The test of man's or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel

The test of man's or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.  Anybody can behave well when things are going smoothly - George Bernard Shaw

Stop worrying

"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey" ~Babs Hoffman

Grab a chance

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might have been - Arthur Ransome

A thing of beauty is a joy forever

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness
- John Keats

reaction

Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai

I am not made or unmade by the things which happen to me but my reaction to them - St John of the Cross

Get the right perspective

Gayatri Temple in Berhampur
 
Get the right perspective.  When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He is so big.  We can never kill him."  David looked at the same giant and thought, "He is so big.  I can't miss." - Russ Johnston

Keep on going

Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it.  I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down - Charles Kettering

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world

"Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power, and influence." ~Henry Chester