Tag: quotes
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Quote
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. – John Wooden, the legendary UCLA basketball coach.
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Solomon’s words
…from The Times of India’s Speaking Tree column dated 07/27/2008: What should you do with rest of your life? About three thousand years ago, a Jewish king named Solomon aired his opinion on the subject. As he put it, he “wanted to see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few…
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Be the warrior, not the critic
…from a speech Theodore Roosevelt gave in Paris in 1910: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred…
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Chanakya Neeti
Pearls of wisdom from the Chanakya Neeti: A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first. Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What…
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Quote
Happened to stumble upon this on the web… The translation: “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, and live the life you’ve imagined”
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Travel, move, wander – even the Rigveda suggests it!
Beautiful quote from the Rigveda… There is no happiness for him who does not travel.The fortune of him who is sitting sits, it rises when he rises, it sleeps when he sleeps, it moves when he moves. Therefore, Wander !
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We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place.
I love listening to this spiel delivered by Brad Pitt in the movie Fight Club. “….Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great…
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