The way of devotion is not different from the way of knowledge, or Jnana. When intelligence matures and lodges securely in the mind it becomes wisdom. When wisdom is integrated with life and becomes action it becomes Bhakti. Knowledge when it becomes fully mature is Bhakti. To believe that Jnana and Bhakti, knowledge and devotion, are different from each other is ignorance.
—Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari (Indian Hindu Political leader)
People are okay, it is their behavior that’s a problem sometimes.
—Ken Blanchard (American Author)
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
—Theodore Roosevelt (American Head of State)
I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.
—Cicero (Roman Philosopher)
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
—John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (Scottish Novelist)
A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
—I. Ching
A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish Novelist)
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)
The rich invest in time; the poor invest in money.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.
—Thomas Edison (American Inventor)