Nagesh Belludi

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
—Abraham Maslow (American Psychologist)

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
—William Blake (English Poet)

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he has gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pigmy.
—Charles Caleb Colton (English Angelic Priest)

All sentient beings are seekers after happiness. He who does not violate other persons for the sake of his happiness will attain happiness afterwards.
—Buddhist Teaching

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
—Bob Dylan (American Singer)

It’s not the load that breaks you down—it’s the way you carry it.
—Lou Holtz

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals… must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.
—Isaac Watts (English Hymn writer)

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
—Orison Swett Marden (American New Thought Writer)

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
—Andy Warhol (American Painter)

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
—Blaise Pascal (French Catholic Mathematician)

The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
—Michel de Montaigne (French Philosopher)

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
—Eleanor Roosevelt (American First Lady)

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, “I was beaten”. He does not say, “My men were beaten”. Thus speaks a real man.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French Novelist, Aviator)

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.
—Arthur Schopenhauer (German Philosopher)

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
—Isaac Asimov (Russian-born American Children’s Books Writer)

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
—Khalil Gibran (Lebanese-born American Philosopher)

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

Our faith comes in moments… yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.
—Bruce Lee (Hong-Kong-born American Sportsperson)

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (Roman Poet)

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
—Benjamin Franklin (American Political leader)

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
—Woodrow Wilson (American Head of State)

There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.
—Katherine Anne Porter (American Journalist)

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
—Epictetus (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
—Woodrow Wilson (American Head of State)

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
—Jim Rohn (American Entrepreneur)

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
—Joseph Addison (English Essayist)

Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.
—Jim Rohn (American Entrepreneur)

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
—Clarence Darrow (American Lawyer)

Try to do to others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than that you should.
—Charles Dickens (English Novelist)

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.
—Eleanor Roosevelt (American First Lady)

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
—John Ruskin (English Art Critic)

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
—Doug Larson

Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.
—Baltasar Gracian

Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
—Joseph Joubert (French Essayist)

There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it; and aspects change with attitudes… Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
—Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand-born British Author)

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
—Jawaharlal Nehru (Indian Head of State)

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
—G. K. Chesterton (English Journalist)

We sometimes think we hate flattery, when we only hate the manner in which we have been flattered.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld