Quotations
Motivational
Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish. Have infinite patience, and success is yours - Swami Vivekananda
This life is a great chance, seek for the highest, aim at the highest, and you shall reach the highest - Swami Vivekananda
Success will come easy once you function at your full potential - Jaggi Vasudev
Data are undigested observations. Information is organised data by others. Knowledge is information put to use in my mind and tested in practice. Wisdom is integrated knowledge --Herlon Cleveland
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together - Vincent Van Gogh
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Great minds discuss Ideas; Average minds discuss Events; Small minds discuss People.
Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory - Mahatma Gandhi
I always do things I can't do, that's how I get to do them - Pablo Picasso
Teaching
A great teacher inspires, A good teacher demonstrates and An average teacher explains
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself - Galileo Galilei
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching - Aristotle
Education should not be about moulding children the way you want them, but about supporting their natural longing to know and blossom - JV
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance - Confucius
No student knows his subject; the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know - Woodrow Wilson
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence - Bruce Lee
The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don't tell you what to see - Alexandra K Trenfor
The significance of a teacher is not just to rattle off information, but to inspire and enhance each student as a human being - JV
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence - Rabindranath Tagore
The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions. - Claude Levi-Strauss
When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready the teacher will disappear - Lao Tzu
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire - William Yeats
Teachings and philosophies cannot transform anyone - they can only inspire. - JV
If the purpose of learning is to score well on a test, we've lost sight of the real reason for learning - J Fulbright
Your merits are judged not by the efforts you put, but by the results you produce
At the end of the day, you need discipline, analytical ability, respectfulness, ethical bent of mind and a creative approach to the world. - Sam Pitroda
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso
Letter sent from Mr Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President to his son’s teacher
My son starts school today. It is all going to be strange and new to him for a while and I wish you would treat him gently. It is an adventure that might take him across continents. All adventures probably include wars, tragedy and sorrow. To live this life will require faith, love and courage.
So Dear Teacher, will you please take him by his hand and teach him things he will have to know, teaching him – but gently, if you can. Teach him that for every enemy, there is a friend. He will have to know that all men are not just, that all men are not true. But teach him also that for every scoundrel there is a hero, that for every crooked politician, there is a dedicated leader.
Teach him if you can that 10 cents earned is of far more value than a dollar found. In school, teacher, it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat. Teach him to learn how to gracefully lose, and enjoy winning when he does win.
Teach him to be gentle with gentle people, tough with tough people. Steer him away from envy if you can and teach him the secret of quiet laughter. Teach him if you can – how to laugh when he is sad, teach him there is no shame in tears. Teach him there can be glory in failure and despair in success. Teach him to scoff at cynics.
Teach him if you can the wonders of books, but also give time to ponder the extreme mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun and flowers on a green hill. Teach him to have faith in his own ideas, even if everyone tells him they are wrong.
Try to give my son the strength not to follow the crowd when everyone else is doing it. Teach him to listen to everyone, but teach him also to filter all that he hears on a screen of truth and take only the good that comes through.
Teach him to sell his talents and brains to the highest bidder but never to put a price tag on his heart and soul. Let him have the courage to be impatient, let him have the patience to be brave. Teach him to have sublime faith in himself, because then he will always have sublime faith in mankind, in God.
This is the request, TEACHER but see what best you can do. He is such a nice little boy and he is my son.
-Abraham Lincoln
Spiritual
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. - Lao Tzu
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship - Goutama Buddha
He who understands quickly, listens patiently, pursues his objects with judgment, not just from (gross) desire, and spends not his breath on the affairs of others without being asked, is said to possess the foremost mark of wisdom -- Vidura in Mahabharath, udyoga parva, section 33.41
A man attains beauty, wealth, wisdom, health and longer life as a result of getting up early in the morning. His body becomes beautiful like a lotus flower.-[Bhava Sara 63]
Love your job but NEVER fall in love with your company because you never know when it stops loving you - Abdul Kalam
There are many ways to attain mukti or ultimate liberation - through pure energy, awareness, absolute selflessness, or devotion. Devotion is the quickest way - JV
Integrity is not a bunch of values or ethics. Integrity is the coherence between how you are, how you think, and how you act. - JV
Life
Call it guilt, fear, anger, or hatred - essentially, it means your thoughts and emotions are working against you
Learning to live joyfully with things you do not like is a huge lesson in life
Do not think about enlightenment - look at your limitations and how to go beyond them. That's the way to progress
When the wellbeing of others is above your own, a different kind of strength, a strength that will carry you through life and beyond, will become available
The more exact a man says he is, the more reason one has for regarding him as inexact - Bertrand Russel
Leadership is not an assertion of yourself but the art of fulfilling everyone's aspirations
If you eliminate the need to get something out of relationships and naturally overflow with joy, you can have fabulous relationships with all sorts of people - JV
Success means doing something the way it works
When you consciously choose to be ordinary, you become extraordinary
Going beyond your limitations is far more important than staying within the limitations of what you like
Recognize people around you for the best that you have seen in them. In recognizing the best instead of the worst, you will kindle, nurture, and receive the best of everyone
Do not try to destroy the enemy. Destroy the enmity.
If someone is nasty to you, first try love. If that does not work, compassion. If that does not work, distance -JV
We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes it move.
We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable.
We work with being, but non-being is what we use. -Lao Tzu
If you risk nothing then you risk everything. - Geena Davis