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ABILITY

  Ability is poor man’s wealth.

  Develop ability to utilise the opportunities, which are now open to you.

ACCEPTANCE

  A wise man is one who can live in peace with things he cannot change.
  When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. Result: true
peace of mind.

ACHIEVEMENT

  Every great achievement is done slowly.

  Look at your achievement by the efforts made and not by the result achieved.
  Never falling is not an achievement.
  Real achievement is rising again after a fall.
  When a thing is done, it is done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next
objective.

ACCOMPLISHMENT

  The world expects results. Don’t tell others about the Labour pains. Show
them the baby.

ACTION

  Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

  Action is the only expression of thought.
  Action is only option.
  Choose a life of action.
  Do what you can, with what you have, where you are
  Look at nature. She is continuously in action, never rests for a single moment.
  Much has been done, but more remains to be done.
  No one attains perfection by running away from action.
  Our trouble is not ignorance but inaction.
  The action of today becomes the destiny of tomorrow.
  Think twice before taking action, but when the time of action arrives stop
thinking.
  Think like a man of action. Act like a man of thought.

ADJUSTMENT

  Adjustment is not compromise.

  An administrator must be adept at adapting.
  Be firm, not rigid.
  Look at the tree, it bends with the wind but does not fall.
ADVERSITY

  Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

  Adversity introduces a man to himself.
  Adversity is afraid of one who is not afraid of adversity.
  Adversity makes man wise but not rich.
  In prosperity our friends know us, in adversity we know our friends.
  The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
  There is no success without hardship.

ADVICE

  Advice is seldom welcome, those who need it most, like it least.

  Don’t offer advice, which you can’t practise.
  In giving advice try to help not to please or to tease.
  It is better to be advised than praised.
  Never give advice unless asked.
  Never mind if the advice given by you is not followed.
  Whatever advice you give, be short.
  Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at
present.

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AGREEMENT

  If the two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they
disagree all the time, then both are useless.

AGE

  Count your age by your friends, not by years.

  What are important are not the years in your life but the life in your years.

ALTERNATIVE

  “For every malady, under the sun.

There is a remedy, or none’s.
If there is one, try to find it.
If there is none, don’t mind it.”

AMBITION

  Ambition is like food – too little or too much, both are harmful.
  Not failure, but low aim is crime.
  “The earth has a limit,
The mountain, the sea;
The deep thoughts of kings
Are without boundary.”
ANGER

  Anger is a wind, which blows out the lamp of the mind.

  Anger is an arrow, which will return against you.
  For every 10 minutes you are angry: You lose 600 seconds of happiness!
  If you are angry count up to ten, if very angry count up to hundred.
  If you are right then there is no need to be angry. If you are wrong you cannot
afford to be angry.
  Keep cool, anger is not an answer.
  Never write a letter when you are angry.
  The best remedy for anger is delay.

ANTICIPATION

  Anticipate carefully but positively.

  Correct anticipation is an indication of your development.
  Judicious anticipation lessens your trouble.

APPEARANCE

  All that glitters is not gold.

  Always behave as if nothing has happened, no matter what has happened.
  Appear like a winner even if you are a big loser.
  Clothes don’t make a person, but they speak for you.
  Man should give out fragrance like the flower and shine like a sun.
  Polished copper is cheaper but makes more impression than crude gold.
  The first judgment is from your appearance.
  The shortest and surest way to live with honors in the world is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.

APPROACH

  Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favour.

  Never fight with a man who has nothing to lose.
  Never murder a man who is committing suicide.

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ARGUMENT

  Agreements get better results than arguments.

  All arguments and reasoning must be based on certain perceptions
  Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of
ignorance.
  Speech is silver, silence is gold.

ARROGANCE
  Admitting you’re wrong is a modest way of showing you’ve grown a little
wiser.
  Arrogance is nothing but ignorance.
ASPIRATION

  The bird wishes it were a cloud. The cloud wishes it were a bird.

ASSOCIATES

  It is better to be alone than in bad company.

  Tell me who are your associates and I will tell you who you are.

ATTACHMENT

  Attachment comes only when we expect a return.

  Man is crushed by his own attachment.

ATTITUDE

  Good attitudes do not result from good positions or wealth. The fact is that
people get good positions because of their positive attitudes.
  One person says,” Night has fallen.” Another says, “ Morning is yet to come.”
  Right attitude is half success.
  To a willing mind nothing is impossible.
  What we see depends mainly upon our attitude.

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BEAUTY

  Beauty lies in the heart of a viewer.

  No beauty is like the beauty of the mind.
  No one knows about your integrity, your sincerity, your talent or your
goodness unless you give out samples in action.
  Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we carry it with us.
  What is beautiful is not always good but what is good is always beautiful.

BEGINNING

  A journey of a thousand of miles must begin with a single step.

  Only a man who is content with small beginnings can make big achievements.
  He, who climbs a ladder, begins at the bottom.
  Many a sale has been won or lost in the first three minutes.
  Any day can be a start of the big job. No need for waiting the right time.
  The bell never rings by itself; someone has to move it.
  Well begun is half done?

BEHAVIOUR

  Behave with others the way you expect others to behave with you.
  Behaviour is an important tool for success, behave clearly, gently, amply,
kindly, friendly, cheerfully and boldly.
BEST

  Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.
  If you consistently do best, the worst won’t happen.
  If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
  The best things in life sometimes take a little more time to arrive. But they are
worth waiting for.

BODY

  The body must be taken care of, it is a temple of soul, a means to an end.

BOLDNESS

  Fortune favours the bold.

  If you play it safe in life, you have decided that you don’t want to grow any
more.
  In time of stress, be bold and valiant.
  Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
  Success is the reward for anyone who looks for trouble.

BOOK
  Book and friends should be few and good.
  Choose an author as you choose a friend.
  Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only I have in my library
are books that other folk have lent me.
  One who has a book is not alone.

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BORROWING

  Borrowing is not much better than begging.

  If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
  The borrower is servant to the lender.

BOSS

  A boss has to be a good shock absorber.

  A man should live with his superior as he does with fire, not too near or too
far.
  Speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

BRAVERY

  The brave alone can afford to be sincere.

  The brave alone does great things.
BUSINESS

  Be busy like a bee.

  Being busy is like meditation.
  Business is like riding a bicycle – either you keep moving or you fall down.
  Busy men have more time.
  If you can’t stand the competition, get out of the business.
  That which everybody’s business is nobody’s business.

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CAUTION

  A wise man does not keep all his eggs in one basket.
  Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
  Do not try to master too many things.
  Drink nothing without seeing, sign nothing without reading.

CENSURE

  Neither blames you nor praises yourself.

  One should examining oneself for a very long time before giving any
comments on others.

CHALLENGE

  Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

  The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
  When the load feels heavy, it is a sign of climbing.

CHANCE

  Every moment is a new chance.

  If you are not failing, it is a sign that you are taking no chances.

CHANGE

  A change for the better always starts with a change of thinking.

  Change is a low of nature. Everything is changing.
  Change is the only permanent thing.
  The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. The foolish does
not and the dead cannot.
  Things do not change; we change.
  When it is impossible to change others, you must change yourself.
  When one cannot change a situation, he better change himself.

CHARACTER
  A person’s true character is so often revealed by the manner in which he
receives praise.
  Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
  Character is like a tree and reputation is like its shadow. The shadow is what
we think of it, the tree is a real thing.
  Character is made by what you stand for; reputation, by what you falls for.
  Character is repeated habits and repeated habits can alone reform character.
  Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend
our time.
  Character is what you are in the dark.
  Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
  He who has no character is not a man, but only a thing.
  It is character that wins everywhere.

  Not education, but character, is man’s greatest need and man’s greatest
safeguard.
  The discipline of desire is the background of character.
  The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew that it
would never be known.
  “When wealth is lost, nothing is lost,
When health is lost, something is lost,
When character is lost, all is lost.”
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CHARITY

  A word of sincere sympathy, a look of love, a smile of true affection, can give
to the recipient much more than a heartless cheque, even if it were for a fat sum.
  Charity never faileth.
  If you can’t lift the load of another’s back, try to lighten it.
  Learn to give and forgive.
  The hand was made to give always.

CHEERFULNESS

  A cheerful man is welcome everywhere.

  Cheerfulness reduces your difficulties.
  The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a
thousand pounds a year.

CHILD

  Children are like cement, whatever falls on them makes an impression.

  We should see what a child can do instead of forcing a child to do what we
see.

CIRCUMSTANCES

  Circumstances are the rulers of the weak, but they are the instruments of wise.
  Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action, try to use
ordinary situations.
  Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of
man.
  What circumstances; I will make circumstances.

CLEANLINESS

  A clean life indicates a strong mind. It shows that you are refined.
  A clean place is a temple. It improves your efficiency.
  Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it.
  Cleanliness is next to Godliness.

COMPETITION

  Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
  He who competes with us, strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.
  I do not meet the competition. I crush it.
  Never speak ill of your competitors.
  The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no
competition.
  The wise man does not compete; therefore, nobody can compete with him.

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COMPROMISE

  A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone

believes he has the biggest piece.

CONCEALMENT
  Hide not your thoughts. If it is shameful to reveal them, it is more shameful to
think them.
  It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.

CONCENTRATION

  Along with the development of concentration we must develop the power of

detachment.
  Concentration is the essence of all knowledge.
  The key to success is concentrating. Go directly to the point looking neither to
the right nor to the left.

CONDUCT

  Apologies quickly and graciously - anger slowly and thoughtfully.

  The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct not by their
profession.
CONFIDENCE

  As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

  Confidence is the first secret of success.
  Do not relinquish a thing simply because someone else is not sure of you.
  He who has confidence in himself will lead the rest.
  They are able who think they are able.
  Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, say you can. Then find out how
to do it.

CONFLICT

  If you are going for a conflict, take care of your temper.

  Learn the art of saying ‘No’.
  Never get into conflict with a man who has nothing to lose.
  Never get into conflict with one who is foolish, proud, or superior.
  Successful people tend to agree or to remain silent.

CONSCIENCE

  Decide what you think is right and stick to it.

CONTENTMENT

  Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

  Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
  I cried for the shoes, until I saw a man without feet.
  Ten poor men can sleep comfortably under one blanket, while two kings
cannot be contained in one kingdom.
  The quiet mind is richer than a crown.
  When we have not what we like, we must like what we have.
  Write your injuries in sand and your advantages in marble.

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CONVERSATION

  At a dinner party one should eat wisely and talk well.

  Contradiction and flattery both make poor conversation.
  If every man were straightforward in his opinions, there would be no
conversation.

CONVICTION

  Leadership usually gravitates to the man who can get up and say what he
thinks.
  One needs to be slow to form convictions.
  Remember what you believe will depend very much on what you are.
COOPERATION

  Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyhow.

  In helping others you help yourself.
  Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
  One step by hundred persons is better than hundred steps by one person.
  The best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their
interests to promote yours.
  Two heads are better than one.
  When you help others succeed, they help you succeed.

COURAGE

  A man of courage is also full of faith.

  Facing it – always facing it – that’s the way to get through. Face it.
  If you still have courage after losing all, you can be rest assured that you have
not lost anything.
  It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
  Success and failure are never final. It is the courage that counts.
  The greatest form of courage is the ability to look at oneself.
  The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
  “Wealth lost-something lost.
  Honors lost-much lost.
  Courage lost – all lost.”
  Whenever you see a successful venture, it shows that someone made a
courageous decision.

COURTESY

  Be courteous; treat the other fellow as though he is as important as he thinks

he is.
  How are u, is a greeting, not a question.
  If you treat people right, they will treat you right.
  Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.
  The small courtesies sweeten life, the greater ennoble it.
  The world will change if the people made just a little effort to be friendly.
  Treating people courteously requires very little effort.

COWARDICE

  A coward never wins a race.

  Cowards die many times before their death.
  Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
  It is better to be violent than cowardly.
  There is no greater sin than cowardice.

CREATIVITY
  A person who uses his imagination creativity may do better than a person with
more resources of men, money and materials.
  Creative intelligence is what makes men.
  Don’t neglect your hobbies and you will find that you are more creative.
  No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you are
still young.
  The power of imagination makes us infinite.

CRITICISM

  Criticism is like a boundless sea. Once you get into it you can hardly get out
of it.
  If you have to criticise, do it lovingly.
  Never answer a critic unless, he is right.
  Never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
  To be irritated by criticism is to knowledge it was deserved.
  To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
  We are quick to criticise the faults of others, but slow to use those faults to
correct our own.

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DEATH

  DEATH is merely a change of body.

  Death is the golden key that opens the place of eternity.
  Heaven gives its favorites an early death.
  It is better to die on the battlefield than to live a life of defeat.
  Man never dies. He kills himself.

DECENCY

  Behave as though you are under continuous observation.

  A fussy man never does the big things in life.

DECISION
  Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be overcome.
  Firm and clear decision will bring you to the goal very early.

DEFEAT

  DEFEAT is a school in which truth always grows strong.

  However great the defeat is, it is always temporary. With better planning next
time, it can be converted into victory.
  I would rather suffer defeat than have caused to be ashamed of victory
  The tide always comes back. Don’t ever accept defeat.
  Wise men learn more from defeat than they do from victory.
  You must learn to accept defeat without being defeated.
DESIRE

  Desire brings all misery because desire leads to more desires.

  I have learnt to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in
attempting to satisfy them.
  One who desires nothing for himself is desired by all.
  There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire, the other
is to get it.
  There is no limit to man’s desires; he goes on desiring and when he comes to a
point where desire cannot be fulfilled, the result is pain.
  We live in our desires rather than in achievements.

DESTINY

  A man’s destiny stands not in the future, but in the past.

  Have faith in yourself and in your destiny. Realize that you are unique.
  Man can change his destiny not by willing for it but by working for it.
  The action of today becomes the destiny of tomorrow.

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DETERMINATION

  Fall seven times, stand up eight.

  It takes time and perseverance to do big things.
  We will either find a way or make one.

DIFFICULTY

  Every stone can be a stepping stone.

  If there is no difficulty in race, you will not enjoy the winning.

DIGNITY

  Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we

deserve them.
  Maintain your dignity at any cost and help others maintain theirs.
  It doesn’t matter whether you can be proud of your ancestors; what matters is
if they can be proud of you.

DISAPPOINTMENT

  Disappointment comes only to those who make appointments with future.

  Life is full of disappointments. Keep your sanity and you’ll survive them all.

DISCIPLINE

  He who reins over himself and rules over his desires is more than a king.
  Keep cool and you command everybody.
DISCRETION

  Pick and choose the battles you fight and don’t make every problem a war.
  Think what you like, say what you ought.
  You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

DISCRIMINATION

  He who knows when to stop runs into danger.

  If you have too many jobs to do at once, sit back and pick the three most
important ones.
  When the winds of change are blowing, you need to know which way and
how fast.

DIVINITY

  To attach ourselves to the divine is to detach ourselves from the undivine. To

walk into light is to walk out of darkness.
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DOUBT

  Do not doubt on whom you trust, do not trust on whom you doubt.
  We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt
increases.

DREAM

  Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

  To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
  If you want your dreams come true, then don’t sleep.

DRESS

  As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion

nor the last out of it.
  Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

DUTY

  Every duty has its own place and according to the circumstances in which we
are placed we must perform our duties.
  Every duty is holy and a devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of
God.
  No duty is ugly, no duty is impure.
  Our duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest
ideal.
  What is duty for one may not be so for another.
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ECONOMY

  Buy not what you want, but what you have need of.
  Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it
well.

EDUCATION

  Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

  Education, which does not build character, is worthless.
  He who opens a school closes a prison.
  If the poor can’t come to education, education must go to him.
  The essence of education lies in drawing out the very best that is in you.
  The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
  They know enough who know how to learn.
  We want that education by which character is formed and strength of mind is
increased.
  What sculpture is to a piece of marble, education is to the soul.

EFFICIENCY

  Do not try to do two or more things at a time, se the priorities.

  If you want to get a thing done, give it to the busiest executive.
  The time spent to organize you work will be paid back by improved
efficiency.
  There is an easier, better and quicker way to do everything. We must seek that
way.

EFFORT

  Active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

  No one can do better than his best. So doing best is the only option.
  People seldom see the painful steps to success.
  The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

EGO

  Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.
  One nice thing about egotist; they do not talk about other people.
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ENCOURAGEMENT

  Encouragement after censure is like the sun after a shower.

  By encouraging someone, you are reducing your work.

ENEMY

  Have you fifty friends? It is not enough. Have you one enemy? It is too much.
  If you really want to annoy your enemy, keep silent and leave him alone.
  If you want to make peace, do not talk to your friends. Talk to your enemies.
  It is important to have less enemies than to have more friends.

ENERGY

  An atom has tremendous energy, think of the man.

ENJOYMENT

  The enjoyment that you are seeking is only in peace.

  The fewer are one’s possessions, the greater are one’s enjoyment and freedom.

ENTHUSIASM

  An easy task becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

  Loss of enthusiasm is like a premature death. It is like accepting defeat
without having been defeated.
  You may do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

ENVY

  There is always something about your success that displeases even your best
friends.
  There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty.
At sixty, nobody envies you.

EQUALITY

  There is no king who has not had a slave among the ancestors and no slave
who has not had a king among his.

ERROR

  The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
  The greatest error you can make in life is to be in fear of committing an error.
  To err is human, to forgive is divine.

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EVIL

  Returning good for evil destroys the evil.

  The evils that are in the world are caused by none else but ourselves.
  The only cure for evil is unselfishness.

EVOLUTION

  We stand in the present but open ourselves to the infinite future.

  Every fool will become a hero at one time or another.
EXAMINATION

  The examination of life begins when the life of examination ends.

EXAMPLE

  Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonials than by a

thousands arguments.
  The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.

EXCELLENCE

  Either dance wells or quit the ballroom.

  Those who keep climbing higher in their chosen work, attain excellence.

EXPECTATION

  An ounce without expectation is more than a pound with expectation.

  Life is a mirror and will reflect to the thinker what he thinks into it.

EXPERIENCE

  A prudent man learns from his experience. The wise learns from others.
  If a man deceives me once shames on him; If he deceives me twice, shame on
me.
  Life is series of experiences. Each one makes us wiser.

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FAILURE

  A man can fail many times, but he is not a failure until he gives up.
  Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
  Failure means delay not defeat.
  If you want to be success, display enough courage to welcome failure.
  It is good to fail now and then – you learn a lot more out of failure than you
do out of success.
  Men do not fail, they give up trying.
  Men fail not so much for lack of education but for lack of determination.
  The greatest failure is the failure to try.
  The man who lives only for himself is a failure. The man who lives for others
has achieved true success.
  The only people who never fail are those who never try.
  There is no disgrace in honest failure, there is disgrace in fearing to fail.

FAITH

  Faith is one of the potent factors of humanity and of all the religions.
  He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in GOD.
  It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
  So long you have faith in you, nothing will be able o obstruct your way.
  You may achieve little with faith, but you can achieve nothing without it.

FALL

  Be ever like a rubber-ball. The more it falls the more it rises.

FAME

  Be nice to people on your way up because you will need them on your way
down.
  Fame always brings loneliness.
  Fame comes to those who don’t seek it.

FAMILY

  Don’t force your son to do what you like him to do. He will then hate to do it.
Let him decide himself and you will be surprised at his initiative.
  Some parents scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

FATE

  We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

FAULT

  A wise man is one who forgets the faults of others, but always remembers his
own.
  Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own.
  Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

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FEAR

  Cowards die many times before their death.

  Do the thing you fear, and fear will disappear.
  Never fear shadows; they simply mean that there is a light shining somewhere
nearby.
  True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

FLEXIBILITY

  The only man who can change his mind is a man who has got one.
  The world will not change, we have to change.
  Those who cannot bend, fall with the wind.
  We must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything.
  FOOD
  Eat to live and not live to eat.
  More die in the world of too much food than of too little.
FOOLISHNESS

  Let us be thankful to the fools. We succeed because of them.

  Success makes a fool seem wise.
  The greatest lessons in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
  Wise man learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

FORGIVENESS

  Forgive many things in others, nothing in yourself.

  Good to forgive, best to forget.
  When I refuse to forgive, I am burning the bridge that someday I will need to
pass over.

FREEDOM

  Freedom is one goal towards which we all are moving.

  In order to get freedom, go to a place where no one honours you.
  We must inform our minds that no one in this universe depends upon us.

FRIEND

  A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.

  A real friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be on the way
down.
  Books and friends should be few and good.
  Friends are made by many acts, but are lost by one act.
  God sends me a friend that will tell me of my faults.
  It is chance that makes brothers but hearts that makes friends.
  Success depends on your ability to make and keep friends.
  The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying
for.
  Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

FUTURE

  If you cannot think about future, you cannot have one.

  Just remember – when you think all is lost, the future remains.
  You better pay attention to your future because you are going to spend a lot of
time there.

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GENIUS

  Doing easily what others find difficult is talent, doing what is impossible for
talented is genius.
  Genius do not do the different things, they do the things differently.
  Genius only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.
GIFT

  A kind thought has more value than a material gift because it cannot e bought.

GITA

  Work, work, work and day and night, says the Gita.

GIVING

  A rose given during life is better than orchids on the grave.

  Even Alexander the Great was carried to the burial ground with two empty
palms showing outside his shroud. Think. Give away what you cannot use in your
lifetime.
  For a man of realization, giving is easier than taking.
  Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.
  He that gives should never remember; he that receives should never forget.
  Never refuse to give.
  We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.

GOAL

  An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
  Direction is more important than speed.
  If you seek well, you will find well.
  To succeed, keep setting goals - long range goals, short-range goals.
  Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
  We are judged by what we finish, not by what we start.

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GOODNESS

  Disease and misfortune come to do us good in the long run.

  What is good for others may not be good for us.

GRATITUDE

  Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none has a right to
expect.
  Never expect gratitude. In case if you get it, be pleasantly surprised.

GREATNESS

  A great man is always willing to be little.

  Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
  There is a great man who makes everyone feel small. But the real great man
is the man who makes everyone feel great.
GROWTH

  Liberty is the first condition of growth.

GURU

  The father and mother give birth to the body, the Guru gives rebirth to soul.

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HABIT

  The best cure for a sluggish mind is to disturb its routine.

HAPPINESS

  Accept sorrow and failures to enjoy happiness.

  Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others unless you have
some on you.
  Happiness is never perfect until it is shared.
  It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.
  It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that make anyone
happy or miserable.
  The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be
happy is to make others so.

HARMONY

  What we really need is head and heart combined. And that is harmony.

HASTE

  Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, despatch of a strong one.

  More haste, less speed.
  The people who make haste are usually saving minutes after having wasted
hours.
  Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

HATERD

  Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
  Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will only be stilled by
love.

HEALTH

  Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

  He who has health, has hope; and who has hope, has everything.
  Health is happiness.
HEART

  A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

  It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love.
  It takes very little to fill up a big heart.
  The pure heart is the best mirror for the reflection of truth.
  The heart has its reason which reason does not know.
  The heart of the fool is in his mouth but the mouth of the wise is in his heart.
  Whenever there is conflict between the heart and the head let the heart be
followed.

HELP

  Best help is to make people help themselves.

  God helps those who help themselves.

HOME

  East or west, home is the best.

  He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

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HONESTY

  An honest day’s work is the best medicine for all ills.

  An honest man is the noblest work of god.
  Honesty is a state of mind, none else but you can know it.
  It pays to be honest, but it’s slow pay.
  One should be honest and also appear to be honest.
  There can be no dignity without honesty.

HOPE

  Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

  Hope is very good company on your way to target.
  There is always a tomorrow.

HUMILITY

  Fundamental requirement for success: humility.

HUMOUR

  If you can’t take a joke, then you’ll have to take the medicine.

HURRY

  Don’t hurry. The more you hurry, the more time you will take.
HONOUR

  Success without honor is like food without salt it will satisfy your hunger, but
it won’t taste good.
  When honor dies, the man is dead.

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IDLENESS

  The real evil is idleness, which is the principal cause of our poverty.
  To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

IMPROVEMENT

  Be what you are. This is the first step towards becoming better than you are.
  The largest room in the world is the room for improvement.
  We often seem more anxious to defend our performance than to improve it.

INDEPENDENCE

  Follow your own bent, no matter what people say.

  Get away from the crowd where you can keep you to yourself, if only for a
few hours daily.

INITIATIVE

  Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
  Initiative is finding a better method.

INSULT

  He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.

  No one can ever insult you when you know your own worth.

INTEGRITY

  A man of integrity is accepted, believed, trusted and befriended by all.

  Integrity has no need for rules.
  Integrity is a state of mind.
  Integrity is self-rewarding.

INTERACTION

  Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one and enemy to
none
  Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of a man on a
desert island.
INTUITION

  Intuition is different from illusion. It is communication with the supreme.

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JEALOUSY

  Jealousy arises from a lack of confidence in yourself.

  Jealously is the root of all evil, and a most difficult thing is to conquer.
  Jealously will eat you away, get rid of it at the earliest.

JUDGEMENT

  Each man is to be judge by his own idea.

  We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us
by what we have already done.

KINDNESS

  Kindness is an attitude of sympathy along with love and understanding.

  Kindness is returned in kindness, ninety per cent.

KNOWLEDGE

  All knowledge is within us. We have to discover it

  An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
  As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
  Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge.
  Better know nothing than half-know many things.
  The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
  Where there is light, darkness cannot be. Where knowledge has come,
ignorance must quit.

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LANGUAGE

  In the commerce of speech use only coins of gold and silver.

  Language is the vehicle of ideas.
  Speech is a mirror of the soul, as a man speaks, so he is.

LEARNING

  A good man is always a learner

  It is better to make the working environment a learning environment.
  Learn from the past to improve the future.
  Learning is a lifelong process. It continues even thereafter.
  We must learn from others. Everyone has something more than us.
  We should not ask who is most learned, but who is the best learned.
  What we learn with pleasure, we never forget.
LAZINESS

  Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

LEADERSHIP

  Leadership is action, not position.

  The ability to recognise ability is a character of leadership.
  You will never be a leader unless you first learn to follow.

LEARNING

  A good man is always a learner.

  It is better to make the working environment a learning environment.
  Learn from the past to improve the future.
  We must learn from others. Everyone has something more than us.
  What we learn with pleasure, we never forget.

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LIBERTY

  Liberty means entire freedom.

  Liberty is to the soul of man.

LIFE

  Have patience and live in true endeavor. The best will surely turn up.
  In life to handle yourself use your head, but to handle others use your heart.
  Life is a continues flow of experiences.
  Interruptions are the spices of life.
  Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.
  Live in the bliss of best thoughts said and done.
  Living the right values of life is like building a dam across the river
  We are lamps and our burning is what we call life.

LIGHT

  Curse not darkness, light a lamp.

  Light is a shadow of god.
  There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that
reflects it.
  To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

LISTENING

  A good listener is more popular than a good speaker.

  From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
  Listening is an art. Listen with your eyes also.
LIVING

  At the start of your career, what you learn is more important than what you
earn.
  The right way of living is only living without hatred.
  To live rightly is itself an art.

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LOVE

  Love is not love, if it does not serve and sacrifice.

  Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
  Love is to human hearts what the sun is to flowers.
  The first sign of love is when love asks nothing, gives everything.
  We may often give without love, but we can never love without giving.
  When our hearts are full of love, life is a smiling valley of beauty and joy.

LUCK

  Fortune favors the brave

  I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.
  Luck generally comes to those who look after it.
  Luck taps once in a lifetime, at everybody door. If he does not open it, luck
goes away.
  The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
  The ratio between hard work and luck is 70:30.

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MAN

  A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that
others throw at him.
  Man becomes high or low according to his deeds.
  To misunderstand a man is easy, to understand him is difficult.

MARRAIGES

  A married woman who is still pretty at forty is the achievement of her

husband’s love.
  Every man who is happily married is a successful man, even if he has failed in
everything else.
  It is not lack of love but lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
  It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one a failure.
  Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the
remaining chapters in prose.
  Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their
happiness
  Marriage is not a word but a sentence
  The happiness of married life depends upon making small scarifies with
cheerfulness

MASTER

  Everyone can be a master but it is difficult to be a servant.

  Only those who want nothing are their masters.

MEASUREMENT

  It is not enough to aim, you must hit.

  The man who has done less than his best done nothing.
  There are only two classes – the first class and no class.

MEDITATION

  Meditation is the path in which ego learn to withdraw itself.

  Meditation kindles life. If fills the personality with new vitality, strength and
dash to achieve.
  One who is striving to learn the art of meditation must slowly and carefully
develop in himself neutral in all situations.
  The impossible is achieved through the process of meditation.

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MEETING

  Meeting is a gathering of gentleman who can singly do nothing and

collectively decide that nothing can be done.

MIND

  A peaceful mind is a significant condition of happiness.

  As the thought, so the mind. As the mind, so the man.
  Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.
  He, who has conquered the mind, has conquered the whole universe.
  In introspection, the mind itself is the subject of study.
  Mind can make a hell of heaven or a heaven of hell.
  On earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but
mind.
  Sorrow is nothing but an agitated state of mind.
  The concentrated mind is a lamp that shows us every corner of soul.
  The human mind is like a parachute, it only works when it is open.
  The quieter the mind, the sharper the intellect.

MISERY

  Forget what you have lost. So that you can achieve what still remains.
  There is no misery where there is no want.

MISTAKE

  A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
  All men makes mistakes; only the fools repeat them.
  Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
  If you do not make mistakes, it only means you are not trying 100 per cent.
  Say ‘Sorry’ at the right moment.

MODERATION

  Moderation is success and failure is the true test of a man.

  Nothing in excess is useful.

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MONEY

  I wasn’t interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a

lot of living.
  If money doesn’t bring happiness, give it back.
  Money is a good servant but a bad master.
  Money is not an evil if in good hands.

MORALITY

  Doing good in return of evil is the correct morality.

MORNING

  Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take
care of itself.
  The day dawns only to those who are awake.
  Your morning thoughts determine your conduct for the day.

MOTHER

  But one thing on earth is better than the wife, and that is the mother.
  The mother is the ideal of love, she rules the family, and she possesses the
family.
  To be brave is to have faith in the mother.

MOTIVATION

  Hardship, poverty and want are the best motivation for the success of man.
  If you have the will to win, you have achieved half the success.
MUSIC

  Music is the medicine of breaking hearts.

  Music is the speech of angels.

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NATION

  Each nation has a mission for the world.

NATURE

  Natural beauty alone is beneficent and lasting.

  Nature destroys and her destructions are always constructive.

NEATNESS

  Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard-pressed.
  We are charmed by neatness of person, let not your hair be out of order.

NOBILITY

  Be a noble person in life. Stay noble in your thoughts and actions in all the
circumstances.
  The nobility in your heart must shine out in your actions, in your conduct, in
your work.

NON-VIOLENCE

  Non-violence is the summit of bravery.

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OBEDIENCE

  Everyone wants to command. No one wants to obey. How is it possible?

  Obedience alone gives the right to command.

OLD AGE

  As we grow old, the beauty steals inwards.

OPENNESS

  An open heart is always a kind heart.

  Let the book of the life remain open to all.

OPPORTUNITY
  A wise man makes more opportunities than he finds.
  It is never too late to be what you might have been.
  Opportunity comes to those who look for it.
  Opportunity may be missed, but then others will be sure to come your way.
  See an opportunity in every difficulty.
  The reason many people fail to recognise opportunity is because it comes
disguised as hard work.
  Most of the time, there is no second chance.
  Opportunity is often loss by pausing.
  See an opportunity in every difficulty.
  Small opportunity is often the beginning of a great enterprise.
  Weak men wait for opportunities, strong man makes them.
  When one door shuts, another opens.

ORIGINATLITY

  If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths.

  The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
  Think what nobody else has thought.

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PARTICIPATION

  Let people say what they want to say. This is real participation.

PAST

  In the carriages of the past you cannot go anywhere.

PATIENCE

  A man who is master of patience is master of everything else.

  Better to be slow than rash.
  Have patience and never for a moment doubt your ability to do the things you
really want to do.
  Patience is the best means of success.
  The seed grows into the tree patiently and gently.
  To know how to wait is the great secret of success.

PEACE

  A great part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in
avoiding them.
  A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

PERFECTION

  Aim at perfection in everything but don’t lose sight of the objective for its
sake.
  Perfection is already in man, if he will see it.
  Where I to await perfection, my book would never be finished.

PERSONALITY

  Humility, love, tolerance, mercy etc are the true characteristics of personality.
  Inner personality is more important than outer personality
  Personality is to man what perfume is to a flower.

PERSPECTIVE

  You cannot win any game unless you are ready to win.

PERSUASION

  To succeed you must learn how to get people to do what you want them to do.

PLANNING

  An hour’s planned work is more rewarding than a full day’s unplanned work.
  Planning is deciding what to change today so that tomorrow will be different
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PLEASANT

  What is pleasant today may not be so tomorrow. Our pleasures are always
changing.

POSSESSION

  We are in want only so long as we are attached to our possessions.

POWER

  A friend in power is a friend lost.

  Power is good in the hands of wise person.

PRACTICE

  Constant practice often excels even talent.

  Practice makes us what we shall be.

PRAISE

  People ask you for criticism but they only want praise.

PRAYER
  Prayer doesn’t change things. It changes people and they change things.
  Prayer with lips is not enough, it should be with heart.
  Service in this world is the highest prayers.

PREJUDICE

  It is never too late to give up your prejudices.

PRESENT

  Live in present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.

  The ‘present’ is the only time, when we can work and achieve.

PRIDE

  Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel
important.
  The lord will destroy the house of the proud.
  It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

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PROBLEM

  A problem is a problem as long as you consider it to be a problem.

  A problem is an opportunity to improve.
  Don’t ever let your problems become an excuse.
  It isn’t that they can’t see the solution, it is that they can’t see the problem.

PROGRESS

  Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

  Progress is the activity of today and assurance of tomorrow.

PROMISE

  He is the greatest among man who keeps their promises, be it good or sinful.
  He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in its
performance.
  Refusing in a kind manner is better than making promises, which are not,
kept.

PUNCTUALITY

  It is a god rule to be early so that if you’re late, you’ll be on time.

PURITY

  The heart must be pure and the pure heart sees only good, never evil.
  To attain purity of heart means a long struggle and the constant practice.
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QUALITY

  The quality and efficiency of our work depend upon the spirit with which we
approach our work.

QUIETNESS

  A quiet mind is the best mind.

  The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

QUICKNESS

  Act Quickly, think slowly.

  Be quick to health, slow to seek it.
  Remember justice delayed is justice denied.

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REACTION

  React only when you must.

  We can not control events, but we can only control our reactions to them.

READING

  Reading is to mind what exercise to the body.

  Reading should be in proportion to thinking and thinking in proportion to
reading.
  The habit of reading is the only one which lasts when all other pleasures fade.
  To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

RELATION

  Life is good or evil according to the state of our mind, it is neither by itself.
  What is good for me may be bad for you.

REPUTATION

  A person’s reputation is the opinion people have of him.

  If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.
  Some people pay so much attention to their reputation that they lose their own
character.

RESPONSIBILTY

  Accepting responsibility is accepting challenge.

  Any person who enjoys responsibility usually gets it.
  The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
  The price of greatness is responsibility.
  You cannot escape from your responsibility.

RICHNESS

  A poor man richer than the wealthy man.

  It is better to live rich then to die reach.
  It is riches of the mind only that make a man rich and happy.
  Rich is one who is rich at heart.

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SACRIFICE

  No great work has been done in the world without sacrifice.

  No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy.

SATISFACTION

  The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

  The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

SCIENCE

  Science is a religion of the known and the religion is the science of unknown.
  Science without conscience is but the death of the soul.
  What is now proved was once only imagined.

SECRET

  A secret is what you tell someone else no to tell because you cannot keep it to
yourself.

SERENITY

  Be calm in arguing, calmness is a great advantage.

  How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on inside of
us.
  Live your life each day, as you would climb a mountain slowly, steadily
enjoying each moment.

SERVICE

  Blessed are those whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.
  He who knows how to serve knows how to rule.
  The best way to cheer you up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
  There is no higher religion than human service.
  You work best when you work for others.
SHARING

  Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
  Shared joy is double joy, and shared sorrow is half-sorrow.

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SILENCE

  Perfect silence is the best refutation.

  Silence is a wonderful substitute of brains.
  Silence is one great art of conversations.
  Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.
  Speech is silver, silence is gold

SINCERITY

  Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent, as of character.

  The weak cannot be sincere.
  We must not judge a man by what he has achieved, but by what amount of
sincerity and self-sacrifice he has achieved it.

SMILE

  Do not open a shop unless you know how to smile.

  Keep smiling
  Smile big! A big smile gives you confidence.
  To weep is folly and to smile is wisdom.
  We do not smile because we are happy, we are happy because we smile.

SPEECH

  A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

  Men of few words are the best men.
  Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.

STUDY

  Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

  There is a difference between reading and study just as there is a difference
between seeing and observation.

SUCCESS

  A dictionary is the only place where success appears before work.

  Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working
together is success.
  There is only one way to success; but to failure, there are many.
  There is no lift to success; you have to take ladder.
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TALKING

  The less they know, the more they talk.

TEACHING

  No one was ever really taught by another, each of us has to teach himself.
  Teach, don’t preach.
  We can never teach well without sympathy.

TEMPER

  Keep your temper. It losing makes you worse than who caused it.
  Temper takes you to trouble. Pride keeps you there.

THANKS

  Thanks come from the head or the heart. The ones from the heart are warmer,
are appreciated and are remembered.

THINKING

  Change your thoughts and you change your world.

  A man is what he thinks about all day along.
  Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts.
  Thought is creative. It can make or unmake us.
  Thought is the real plan of action
  There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

TIME

  A good secret of how best to use each day’s time is to try to pack it like a
suitcase, filling up the small spaces with small things.
  As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.
  Doing the duty of time is the best way to live.
  Manage your time as you manage your money.
  Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

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TODAY

  Today belongs to us. Yesterday was. Tomorrow will be.

  Today is the only day to attempt any great and worthy purpose.
  We must make use of today and diligently make our life rich, fruitful and
useful for others.

TOLERANCE

  The world is waiting for this grand idea of universal tolerance.

  Tolerance is the only test of civilization.

TRANQUILITY

  Tranquility is the innate nature of all, it is a self-existent reality.

  Tranquility is truth, truth is beauty; beauty is bliss and bliss is divine.

TRAVELLING

  Success is a journey, not a destination,

  Travel in the younger sort is a part of education, in the elder, a part of
experience.
  Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

TROUBLE

  Life is full of troubles. The troubles, which God sends, are few and fruitful.
Those that we create for ourselves are plenty and painful.
  Welcome trouble. Treat it like a guest.

TRUST

  The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than who disturbs them.
  The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
  To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
  Trust is like a thin thread. Once you break it, it is almost impossible to put it
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TRUTH

  Be true to your word, your work, and your friend.

  Truth should be spoken pleasantly and unpleasant truth should not be spoken.
  Truth stands on its own evidence, it does not require any other testimony to
prove it true.
  We always talk about truth but perhaps never want to face it.

UNDERSTANDING

  If you have understood yourself, you have understood all.

  It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
  Learn by listening. Understand by reflecting.

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UNITY

  All your strength is in your union, all your danger is in discord.

  As soon as we come to know each other, love comes, must come, we are all
one.
  Unity in variety is the plan of universe.

UNIVERSE

  The universe is the visible body of God. So love of the universe is love of
God.

VICTORY

  Keep patience, persevere and you will achieve victory.

  Make victory thy goal.

VIRTUE

  Nothing can harm a good man, either in life or after death.

  The happiness of man as well as his dignity consists in virtue.
  Virtue poisoned with ignorance is evil.

VISION

  VISION is the art of seeing invisible things.

  When there is no vision, the people perish.

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WAIT

  Learn how to wait.

  The sun, which set today, will necessarily rise tomorrow but most people
cannot wait for the coming day.

WATCH

  WATCH your words; watch your action; watch your thoughts; watch your
character and watch your heart.

WEAKNESS

  Weakness is only an imagination.

WILL

  A pure and strong will is omnipotent.

  He who is of firm will moulds the world to himself.
  People do not lack strength; they lack will.
WISDOM

  A wise man is one who asks for more, but is willing to take less.
  Fool and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fool and the half-wise
that are dangerous.
  No answer is also an answer.
  Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
  The wise man is he knows the relative value of things.
  The wisest have the most authority.
  Wisdom is to soul what health is to the body.
  Wisdom lies not in the amount of knowledge acquired but in degree of its
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WITNESS

  Live a life as a witness and you will enjoy it most.

WOMAN

  A handsome woman is a jewel, a good woman is a treasure.

  Behind every successful man, there is always a woman.
  When you educate a man you educate an individual, and when you educate a
woman you educate a whole family.

WORDS

  Good words are worth much and cost little.

  Once a word escapes, it cannot be recaptured.
  The power of words is immense.
  The whole universe sustained by god is within the scope of words.

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XMAS

  CHIRSTMAS belongs to every child as every child belongs to Jesus Christ.

  XMAS is a symbol of love. The birth of Jesus Christ is as worthy of
veneration as that of Ram, Krishna and others.

YOGA

  The end and aim of yoga is to realize god.

  The method of controlling the mind by the body is called yoga.
  The yogi is an artist. He creates himself.
  Yoga is not inaction but skill in action.
YOUTH

  PAY attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
  Take care of youth and the nation will take care of itself.
  The spirit of the youth is the spirit of the nation.
  Youth is the opportunity to do something and to become somebody.

ZEAL

  A zealous nation is the need of the day. Preserve your zeal for higher cause.
  Zeal is the breath of life. With zeal we live, without zeal we die.

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ANYWAY

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered, Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
People favour underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for some underdogs
anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you help them. Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

DON'T QUIT

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing down you a bit -
Rest, if you must, but don't quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tints of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So, stick to the fight when you're hardest hit-
It's when things seem worst than mustn't quit.
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One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with
the lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene he noticed
two sets of Footprints in the sand: one belonging to him, and the other to the
Lord.

When last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back at the footprints in
the sand. He noticed that many a times there was only one set of footprints. He
also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times of his life.

This really bothered him and he questioned the Lord about it. "Lord, you said
that once I decided to follow you, You'd walk with me all the way. But I have
noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life, there is only one set of
footprints. I don't
Understand why when I needed you the most you would leave me."

The lord replied, "my son, my precious child, I love you and would never leave
you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of
footprints, it was then that I carried you".

IF YOU THINK...
If you think you are beaten, you are,

If you think you dare not, you don't,

If you like to win, but you think you can't,

It is almost certain you won't,

If you think you will lose, you're lost,

For out of the world we find,

Success begins with a fellow's will,

It's all in the state of mind,

If you think you are outclassed, you are,

You've got to think high to rise,

You've to be sure of yourself before,

You can ever win a prize,

Life's battles don't always go,

 To the stronger or faster man,

but soon or late the man who wins,

Is the man

who thinks he can!

LIFE

Life is a gift to be used every day.

Not to be smothered and hidden away,
It isn't a thing to be stored in the chest
Where you gather your keepsakes and treasure your best;
It isn't a joy to be sipped now and then
And promptly put back in dark place again.
Life is a gift that the humblest may boast of
And one that the humblest may well make the most of.
Get out and live it each hour of the day
Wear it and use it as much as you may
Don't keep it in niches and corners and grooves,
You'll find that in service, its beauty improve.

-Edgar a. Guest

IF

If you can keep your head when all

about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on
you,
If you can trust yourself when all men
doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting
too,
If you can wait and not be tired of
waiting,
Or being hated, don't give way to
hating,
Yet don't look too good nor talk too
wise;

If you can dream and not make

dreams your master.
If you can think and not make
thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with triumph and
Disaster,
And treat those two imposters just the
 same,
If you can bear to hear the truth
you've spoken,
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for
fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life
to broken,
And stoop and build them up with
worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your

winnings,
And risk it on one turn of pitch and
toss,
And lose and start again at your
beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your
loss,
If you can force your heart and nerve
and sinew,
To serve your turn long after they
have gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing
in you,
Except the will which says to them,
"Hold on";

If you can mix with crowds and keep

your virtue,
Or, walk with kings, nor lose the
common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can
hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too
much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With 60 seconds' worth of distance
run,
Then yours is the world and
everything that's in it,
And what's more-you'll be a man, My
son!

Rudyard Kipling

TAKE CARE OF LITTLE THINGS

Little drops of water

Make the mighty ocean.
Little grains of sand
 Make this beautiful land.

Little moments
Make the mighty ages.
Little pies and farthings
Make millions and crores.

Little mistake
Little unkind acts
Will make you a devil.

Little words of love,

Little acts of kindness,
Little good thoughts
Will make you a saint.

"Life is no straight and easy corridor along

which we travel free and unhampered,
but a maze of passages,
through which we must seek our way,
lost and confused, now and again
checked in a blind alley.

But always, if we have faith,

God will open a door for us,
not perhaps one that we ourselves
would ever have thought of,
but one that will ultimately
prove good to us."

A J Cronin

TRUE NOBILITY

Who does his task from day to day

And meets whatever comes his way,
Believing God has willed it so,
Has found real greatness here below.
Who guards his post, no matter where,
Believing god must need him there,
Although but lowly toil it be,
Has risen to nobility.
For great and low there's but one test
'Tis that each man shall do his best.
 Who works will all the strength he can
Shall never die in debt to man.

-Edgar A. Guest

IF I CAN
If I can throw a single ray of light,
Across the darkened pathway of another;
If I can aid some soul to clearer sight
Of light and duty and thus bless my brother;
If I can wipe from any human cheek a tear
I shall not have, then, lived in vain while here.
If I can guide some erring to truth
Inspire within his heart a sense of duty;
If I can plant within the soul of a rosy plant
A sense of light, a love of truth and beauty;
If I can teach one man that God and Heaven are near;
I shall not have, then, lived in vain while here.
If from my mind I can banish doubt and fear
And keep my life attuned to truth, love and kindness;
If I can scatter light and hope and cheer
And help and remove the curse of mental blindness;
If I can make joy more, more hope, less pain
I shall not have, then, lived in vain while here.
If by life's roadside I can plant a tree
Beneath whose shade some wearied head may rest
Though I may never share its shade or see
Its beauty I shall yet be truly blessed
Though no one knows my name.

THE DIFFERENCE
I got up early one morning
And rushed right into the day;
I had so much to accomplish
That I didn't have time to pray.
Problems just trumbled about me,
And heavier came each task;
"Why doesn't God help me?"
O wondered.
He answered, "You didn't ask."
I wanted to see joy and beauty,
But the day toiled on gray and bleak;
I wondered why God didn't show me.
He said, "But you didn't seek."

I tried to come into God's presence;

I used all my keys in the lock.
 God gently and lovingly chided,
"My child, you didn't knock."

I woke up early this morning,

And paused before entering the day;
I had so much to accomplish
That I had to take time to pray.