Quotations

Inspiration related
It always seems impossible until it is done_Mandela
Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in
It is not the mountains we conquer, but ourselves-Edmund Hillary
You as a mountain can’t grow, but I as a person can_Edmund Hillary
I count him braver, who overcomes his desires than him, who overcomes his enemies
It was buddha who conquered the world, not Alexander-Tagore
As you sow so shall you reap- buddha(Karma)
Spirit of sacrifice should override the sprint of enjoyment
The future depends on what we do today- MG
We must travel in the direction of fear
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work
Be stronger than your Excuses
The darkest nights produce the brightest stars
We need more of walk the talk more than talk the talk
Though times don’t last, but tough people do last.
The strongest steel is forged by the hottest Iron
As human beings our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world, that is the myth of the
atomic age, as being able to remake ourselves_MG
Where the mind is without fear, the head is held high… Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my
country awake
There is scope of improvement even in heaven

Justice related Women related

A girl with book frightens the
terrorist the most_Malala
Shaktism, Aradhanareshwara,
dancing girl
Gargi-questioning the origin of
all existence
Lopamudra-Agasthaya-
Alienation is a form of Philosophical conversation
living death.It is acid of Maitreyi- rejected her husbands
despair that dissolves wealth
society-Martin Luther king BBBP to BADLAV(beti appki
dam lakshmi aur vijaya lakshmi)
Half the perspective
If the women ruled the world
they would have ensured it is
not ruled
A bird cannot fly with one wing
One is not born a women but
made a women_Simon De
Beauvior in her book second
sex
Education related Health related Civil service and governance
related
If there are ghosts in
mustard seeds how can we
use the same seeds to
exorcise the ghosts
Either left or right state If public service is about
Students must be always played a key role in greed of power, which is
taught how to think universalization of far more dangerous than
not what to education and health greed for wealth…. It is
think_Magaret Read Health is a pure public good power over other people
Students not only under provided by any market and it is insatiable-Thomas
have right to got to mechanism Sowell
schooling but also Health has both instrumental Happiness of king should
right to learning and intrinsic value lie in the happiness of its
Health is wealth people
The Punishment suffered
by wise who refuse to take
part in government is to
suffer under the
government of bad men

Liberty and freedom related

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Bigger the government smaller the citizens
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Make money- there is no weapon sharper than it to sever the pride of your foes_Valluvar
The just man’s wealth shall endure and to his race a lasting joy ensure_Valluvar
The government is best which governs least because its people disciplines themselves- Henry David Thoreau
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are
frightened of responsibility.“ - Sigmund Freud
As government expands liberty contracts
Welfare state isn’t really about welfare of masses, it is ego of the elites-Thomas Sowell
Civilization was born when an angry man hurled a word, instead of a stone_Sigmund Freud
A power over man's subsistence is power over his will
The purpose of a government is to make it easy for people to do good and difficult to do evil
Where the mind is without fear, the head is held high… Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let
my country awake

Democracy related Institutional related

Mans capacity for justice makes
democracy possible, mans
inclination for injustice makes Institutions are the persons, who man them at
democracy necessary_Reinhold that particular time
Niebuhr Laws should be so succinct that it can be carried in
Civilization was born when an pocket of the coat, it should be so simple that it can
angry man hurled a word, instead understood by peasant
of a stone_Sigmund Freud
.
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Ethics and moral values related

Unselfish is the foundation of morality_Swami Vivekananda
There is enough on this earth for every ones need ,but not for ones greed
Nearly all men can withstand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character. Give him
power_Lincoln
The only definition that can be given of morality is this that which is selfish is immoral and that
which is unselfish is moral-Swami Vivekananda
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is world
of nuclear gaints and ethical infants
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but
from their regard to their own self-interest_Adam smith
Good of an individual is contained in the good of all
You can fool some people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the
people all of the time-Lincoln
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable part of democracy, as they are today_Mahatma Gandhi
Relativity applies to physics not to ethics-Albert Einstein
Aim above morality.Be not simply good, be good for something
All sins are attempts to fill voids
Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it-Saint Augustine
Power does not corrupt, fear corrupts perhaps the fear of loss of power corrupts
To educate a person in the mind. But not in morals is to educate a menace to society-Theodore Roosevelt
The battle line between good and evil runs doesn’t run class or states, but through the heart of
every man

Environment related
There is enough on this earth for every ones need but not for ones greed
Nature nurtures us, we must nurture nature
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals and thinks in man
Nature teaches more than she preaches
The power of imagination make us infinite
We do not inherit this earth from our forefathers, but borrowed it from our children_John
Muir
What is the use of a house, if you haven't got a tolerbale planet to put it on_Thoreau
When we heal the earth we heal ourselves
Forest produce people, desert succeed them

Introspection,reflection,wisdom,imagination
Humility, generosity, related
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You cannot inquire, if you are anchored in The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count
a belief-J Krishna Murthi our blessings_Eric hoffer
W isdom is to live in tune with the mode of If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the
the changing world shoulders of gaints_issac newton
To find fault may be easy, to do better Happiness s when what you think, what you say, and what you do are
may be difficult-Plutarch in harmony- Manasa vacha Karma- M Gandhi
The most costly outlay is time_Antiphon We cannot appreciate light unless we have seen darkness nor can we
the Sophist appreciate warmth unless we have experienced cold
An ounce of practicing is worth more than The lesson ends with the conclusion that suffering is a part of life
tons of preaching_M K Gandhi and suffering makes an individual stronger and stronger
A thing of beauty is joy forever Essence of civilization is not in the multiplication of wants but
Time definition of coal is the diamond in purification of human characters
Logic can take you from A to B but
imagination can take you anywhere
If plan A fails, remember that there are 25
other letter among alphabets
He who reigns with in himself and rules
his passions, desires and fears is more
than a king
In a time of drastic change, it is learners
who inherit the future.The learned usually
find themselves equipped to live in
a world that no longer exists
W isdom is to live with the
changing world_Thiruvalluvar
Some times by loosing a battle you find a
new way to win a war
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a
reality to be experienced_kierkegard
It was buddha who conquered the world
not Alexander-Tagore
We shall not grow wiser until we learn
that much that we have done was very
foolish-Hayek
We can forgive the child who fear the
dark, but the real tragedy of society is
when afraid of light-plato
You are what your deep driving desire is
As your desire is, so is your will
As your will is, so is your deed
As your deed is, so is your
destiny_Brihadaranyka Upanishad
Rivers dont drink their water, or do trees
eat their own fruit, nor do he clues eat the
grains raised by them.The wealth of noble
is used solely for the benefit of others-
The darkest nights produce the brightest
stars
Cross the river by feeling the stones_deng
You cannot solve intractable problems
with the same thinking that produced the
problem_Einstein
Happiness is never grand and it has
no price
Education is about making a life not just
making a living
Every thing that has a beginning has an
ending -buddha
Traveller read many chapters of life

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Civilization politics, war related Science,innovation and excellence related

History is wheels on geography
Civilization was born when an
angry man hurled a word, instead
of a stone_Sigmund Freud
We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act but
Karl Popper paradox of tolerance:
a habit
In order to maintain a tolerant
The empires of the future are the empires of mind_Winston
society, the society must be
Churchill
intolerant of intolerance
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work
A forward looking country cannot
Be stronger than your Excuses
rest on its past laurels
Even god is bound by the uncertainty principle and cannot
Since Industrial revolution, no
predict the future exactly- Hawking
country has become major
Creative destruction_Joseph Schumpeter
economy without becoming an
Science is bulwark against darker tales of dogma
industrial power_Lee Kuan Yew
A forward looking country cannot rest on its past laurels
I want cultures of all the lands to be
The power of imagination make us infinite
blown about my house as freely as
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when
possible.But I refuse to be blown
they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than
off my feet.
is commonly understood.Indeed the world is ruled by little else-
War is peace.Freedom is
Keynes
slavery.Ignorance is strength
Ideas Rule
Strategy without tactics is slowest route
Ideas are bulletproof
to victory,Tactics without strategy is noise
I don’t fear computers, I fear lack of them
before defeat-Sun Tzu
The saddest aspect of life is that science gathers knowledge
Every one wants decentralization only up
faster than society gathers wisdom
to his level
That one small step a giant leap for mankind
Constitution empowers people as
The first humans shape the technology, later technology
much as people empower the
shapes their lives
constitution.
With great power comes great
responsibility
Unexamined life is not worth living

Social development Agriculture

Unless growth improves social & human Everything can wait, but not agriculture
development, it cannot be sustained If we know the economics of agriculture,
Poor are gold mine for we would know economics of being
politicians_Thomas Sowell poor_Theodore Schultz
Poverty is the parent of revolution and Indias Agriculture victim of its own past
crime_Aristotle success

Economy related

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textiles, first territory to become industrialized nation

Since the Industrial revolution, no country has become a major
economy without becoming an industrial power

Indian mythology episodes Western mythologies episodes

Cosmic equality is only possible
Meek boy David winning over Goliath
in ashes

(Maha baratam)
Greek hero Odysseus

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