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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward
You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw
You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Christopher Columbus
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And Today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
Babatunde Olatunji
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.
John Wooden
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand
Your life is your message to the world. Make it inspiring.
Lorrin L. Lee
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Alva Edison
Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
Never be afraid to try, remember...
Amateurs built the ark.
Professionals built the Titanic.
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw
If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Dale Carnegie
Everything is okay in the end, if it's not ok, then it's not the end.
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
Victoria Holt
Life is too short, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly.
The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.
Vince Lombardi
Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.
When life gives you lemons, cut them in half and squirt life in the eye!
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx
You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come.
Harrison Ford
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
Socrates
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
Thomas Jefferson
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
Confucius
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
Martin Luther King
Some complain that roses have thorns others rejoice that thorns have roses!
I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln
You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love - who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news: The news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish!
Anne Frank
The hardest thing to open is a closed mind.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in awhile and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
George Horace Larimer
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
Sun-tzu
The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.
Susan Sontag
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
Henri L. Bergson
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Hellen Keller
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
Josh Billings
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Mahatma Gandhi
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
St Catherine of Siena
We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.
Talmund
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.
Norman Vincent Peale
Pessimist : A person who says that O is the last letter of ZERO, instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A Edison
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting
Elizabeth Bibesco
Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
So many of our dreams at first seems impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve
Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.
Sam Ewing
There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there’s virtually no competition.
Steven J Ross
Many of life’s failures are people who had not realized how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A Edison
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker
Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!
Donald Gardner
Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.
Po Bronson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Waldo Emerson
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life’s about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.
Harold B Melchart
The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
Benjamin Mays
More often in life, we end up regretting the chances in life that we had, but didn’t take them, than those chances that we took and wished we hadn’t.
Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.
Earl Shoaf
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen
Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
Martin H. Fischer
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. Davies
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
Make new friends, but keep the old;
Those are silver, these are gold.
Joseph Parry
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Winnie the Pooh
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself.
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward
There are only two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Rumi
Love is the Water of Life.
Rumi
It is Love that holds everything together, and it is the everything also.
Rumi
Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
Rumi
The beauty of the heart is the lasting beauty.
Rumi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
We must be the change we wish to see.
Mahatma Gandhi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS.
Mahatma Gandhi
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
Mahatma Gandhi
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching. and live like it's heaven on earth.
Mark Twain
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
William Shakespeare
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players
They have their exits and their entrances
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
Winston Churchill
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Winston Churchill
Never, never, never give up!
Winston Churchill
There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi
Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
Martin H. Fischer
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
Mother Teresa
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Kahlil Gibran
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
David Carradine
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
Charlie Brown
Life is what happens to you
While you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Life is the sum of all your choices.
Albert Camus
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
Thich Nhat Hanh
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
Robert Frost
What good is sitting alone in your room?
Come hear the music play.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum.
Come to the Cabaret.
Fred Ebb and John Kander
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith
Everything happens for a reason, people change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so you can appreciate them when they're right, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can come together.
Marilyn Monroe
There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.
Jean de La Bruyère
Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.
Carl Sandburg
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain
There is no cure for birth and death unless to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others ... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Walt Whitman
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'
The Talmud
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Never regret what made you smile. Just learn from the tears that followed.
We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse.
Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke
If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
Lilly Tomlin
No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.
Sholom Aleichem
Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.
Judy Blume
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Steve Jobs
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”
Mary Anne Radmacher
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
“For every dark night, there's a brighter day”
Tupac Shakur
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Andre Gide
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
Albert Einstein
jitendragarg
13-12-2010, 09:33 AM
"Video games ruined my life. Good things I have two extra".
मेरे ख्याल से जिसने भी mario खेला है, वो इस लाइन को ज्यादा पसंद करेगा!
anjaan
23-04-2011, 10:28 AM
Dr Abdul Kalaam........
"It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone,
But It Is Very Hard To Win Some
Shakespeare.....
"Never Play With The Feelings Of Others Because You May Win The Game
But The Risk Is That You Will Surely Lose The Person For A Life Time".
"Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow!
But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It".
Napoleon........
"The world suffers a lot.
Not because of the violence of bad people,
But because of the silence of good people!"
Einstein.........
"I am thankful to all those who said NO to me
Its because of them I did it myself.."
Abraham Lincoln.........
"If friendship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world"
William Arthur.........
"Opportunities Are Like Sunrises, If You Wait Too Long You Can Miss Them".
Hitler.....
"When You Are In The Light, Everything Follows You,
But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow Doesn't Follow You.""
kartik
03-07-2011, 11:21 PM
nice thread ...but someone very paradoxical for me
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