Nagesh Belludi

A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.
—Lucille Ball (American Actor)

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (American Jurist, Author)

What is the people but a herd confused, a miscellaneous rabble, who extol things vulgar, and well weigh’d, scarce worth the praise? they praise and they admire they know not what, and know not whom, but as one leads the other.
—John Milton (English Poet)

When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury-like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.
—Euripides (Ancient Greek Dramatist)

A man is not finished when he’s defeated; he’s finished when he quits.
—Richard Nixon (American Head of State)

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
—Augustine of Hippo (Roman-African Christian Philosopher)

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
—Karl Marx (German Philosopher, Economist)

One’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into action … which bring results.
—Florence Nightingale (English Nurse)

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation, and a wicked deed disapprobation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
—Moliere (French Playwright)

Don’t give up. Courage is my conviction.
—Dhirubhai Ambani (Indian Businessperson)

A silent mouth is melodious.
—Irish Proverb

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
—Thomas Hobbes (English Political Philosopher)

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
—Adlai Stevenson (American Diplomat)

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity…
—Edward de Bono (British Psychologist, Writer)

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, and you don’t branch out, you don’t try–you don’t take the risk.
—Rosalynn Carter (American Humanitarian, First Lady)

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French Novelist, Aviator)

Our words should be purrs instead of hisses.
—Kathrine Palmer Peterson (American Author of Grief Books)

Great art picks up where nature ends.
—Marc Chagall (French Painter, Graphic Artist)

We must learn two things. One is to see ourselves as others see us. We apply one yardstick when we wish to appraise other people. Secondly, we cannot succeed in anything if we act in fear of other people’s opinions.
—Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari (Indian Statesman, Author)

We have met the enemy and it is us.
—Walt Kelly (American Cartoonist)

Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.
—English Proverb

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
—Charlie Munger (American Investor, Philanthropist)

An idea, like a ghost, according to the common notion of ghosts, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
—Charles Dickens (English Novelist)

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish Novelist)

Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.
—May Sarton (American Children’s Books Writer)

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
—Arnold Glasow (American Businessman)

Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people’s own failure as individuals.
—Vaclav Havel (Czech Dramatist, Statesman)

In wonder all philosophy began; in wonder it ends; and admiration fills up the interspace.—But the first is the wonder of ignorance; the last is the parent of adoration.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English Poet)