QUOTATIONS

1. The best protection is an unshakeable faith in the Divine Grace.
2. Devotion to duty is not a sacrifice. It is a justification to your existence in this world.
3. You cannot stop the birds of trouble from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from making nests in your hair.
4. A friend in the market is better than money in the chest.
5. Never mind failures. Rise with fresh vigour. Everything is conquered by the giant force of will.
6. To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
7. The moral life of man is like the flight of a bird in the air. He is sustained only by effort, and when he ceases to exert himself he falls.
8. To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
9. The seekers or keepers of wealth are more often possessed rather than its possessors.
10. There is a great beauty in simplicity. 
11. The highest virtue is to battle against inequity, no matter what the cost may be.
12. Wealth should be used for charitable purposes, scholastic attainments and knowledge to serve humanity and undertake pious works, power of speech to help others in their advancement and intellect for the realisation of God.
13.  God pervades the entire universe and is a witness to all our actions and hence a wrong done in secret does not enjoy immunity.
14. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly;  it is dearness that gives everything its value.
15. Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks and victory to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences around with gentleness.
16. Equality is not a law of nature. Nature has made no two things equal; its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.
17. Law is not law if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
18. It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.  
19. No people is wholly civilised where a distinction is dream between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
20. Better to do right from wrong motives than wrong from right motives. Whether you lose your own soul is not significant, but how your acts affect others is of vital importance. 
21. Be not ashamed to say what you are not ashamed to think.
22. In this world, there is always danger for those who is afraid of it.
23. The feeling that you have done a job well is rewarding; the feeling that you have done it perfectly is fatal.
24. Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
25. Many people confuse faulty planning and bad management with hard luck.
26. Between elections the politician is in a quandary: what will he promise the next time if he does everything he promised the last time.
27. whatever crushes indiviuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.
28. Among the rules governing the law of righteousness, prime importance is given to speaking the truth under all circumstances. Telling lies will compel persons to continue the habit forever, but those who stick to truth can always be consistent.
29. The earth provides enough to saisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
30. Keep in mind that even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
31. Men become bad and guilty because they speak and act without foreseeing the results of their words and actions.
32. Much of what we mistakenly call 'progress' is merely the substitution of a complicated nuisance for a simple nuisance.
33. All progress and growth is a matter of change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.
34. Idleness is the nest in which mischief lays its eggs.
35. Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
36. One of the principal requirements for a successful life is the ability to make the right decisions.
37. Who allows oppression shares the crime.
38. To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without riches is power.
39. One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
40. The true standard of quality is sealed in the mind; those who think nobly are noble.  
41. Success includes concentration and perseverance.
42. Instruction ends with the school, but education ends only with life.
43. Every man must do his growing, no matter how tall his grand-father was.
44. Desire is the very essence of human progress. 
45. It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
46. Wealth is like a sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true fame.
47. A deaf government and dumb people do not make a statutory entity. A knitting together of people's hearts makes democracy, the hearts being not of sheep but of men.
48. Scientific and technical developments have brought the various parts  of the world closer, but have caused human minds to drift further apart.
49. Life is a long lesson in humility.
50. Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
51. Two things indicate weakness-to be silent when it is proper to speak and to speak when it is proper to be silent.
52. Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.
53. It is too late to dig a well when the house is on fire.
54. If you are positive and sweet you will not have any fear.
55. He who is never sattisfied can give no satisfaction to others.
56. All knowledge must stand on perception of certain facts, and upon that we have to build our reasoning.
57. Do not try to be great. Try to be good, for being good is great.
58. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
59. All political parties die at last by swallowing their own lies.
60. We cannot all be great, but we can attach ourselves to sometthing that is great.  
61. He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
62. Fear is a sign of weakness. A man must go about his duties without taking notice of the sneers and the ridicules of the world.
63. Spiritual knowledge is the only thing that can destroy our miseries forever; any other knowledge satisfies wants only for a time.
64. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquerable.
65. An obstinate man does not hold opinions--they hold him.
66. Money is the root cause of all evils.
67. Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
68. It is not the load that breaks you down. It is the way you carry it.
69. If God had intended that man should go backward, He would have given him eyes in the back of his head.
70. Never speak ill of others but indulge in no untruth.
71. Not failure but low aim is crime.
72. The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into 2 classes--openly bad and secretly bad.
73. The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
74. There are 2 ways of spreading light : to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
75. Don't complain that the rose bush bears thorns. Rejoice that the thorn bush bears roses.   
76. An "Appeaser" is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
77. We must not serve distant neighbours at the expense of the nearest.
78. Life is a tree giving shade to those who are in agony.
79. Life is a bird sitting on a tree in the great orchard.
80. For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love and self-sacrifice.
81. He who will not economise will have to agonise.
82. Actions will be judged by intentions.
83. Truth is the object of philosophy but not always of the philosophers.
84. Of all the possessions of this life, fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust, the great name still lives.
85. Chance favours the prepared mind.
86. No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
87. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
88. The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
89. Famous remarks are seldom quoted correctly.
90. Democracy must mean the art and science of mobilising the entire physical, economic and spiritual resources of all the various sections of the people in the service of the common good of all. 
91. Far more indispensable than food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.
92. A true friend dissuades you from sin, urges you to good action, keeps your secrets, proclaims your merits, does not forsake you in distress and helps you in time of need.
93. I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
94. Rules make the learners path long, examples make it short and successful.
95. Violent delights have violent ends.
96. Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
97. Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way.
98. Jealousy must be avoided, for that is the seed of calamities.
99. The two most engaging powers of an author, are, to make new things familiar, and familiar things, new.
100. We have too many people who live without working, and we have alogether too many who work without living.  
101. Man's value is in the few things he creates, and not in the many things he amasses.
102. Right thinking is the first condition to make on earth smooth and profitable.
103. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
104. It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
105. Wealth is like a sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is truth of fame.
106. A deaf government and dumb people do not make democracy. Democracy is not just a statutory entity. A knitting together of people's hearts makes democracy, the hearts being not of sheep but of men.
107. Scientific and technical developments have brought the various parts of the world closer, but have caused human minds to drift further apart.
108. Life is a long lesson in humility.