Nagesh Belludi

If there’s anything worse than self-questioning coming too early in life, it’s self-questioning coming too late.
—Philip Roth (American Novelist)

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
—Napoleon Hill (American Author)

True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two.
—Thomas Browne (English Christian Author)

Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.
—Bahya ibn Paquda (Spanish Jewish Philosopher)

Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
—John Dryden (English Poet)

Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
—Norman Cousins (American Journalist)

Who can confess his poverty and look it in the face, destroys its sting: but a proud poor man, he is poor, indeed.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon (English Poet)

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)

When my horse is running good, I don’t stop to give him sugar.
—William Faulkner (American Novelist)

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
—Marianne Williamson (American Activist)

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
—Johann Gottfried Herder (German Lutheran Philosopher)

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
—Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese Buddhist Religious Leader)

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
—William Faulkner (American Novelist)

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
—Andre Gide (French Novelist)

Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
—David Lloyd George (British Head of State)

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
—Pierre-Marc-Gaston, duc de Levis

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
—Sam Levenson (American Humorist)

Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
—Barbara De Angelis (American Lecturer)

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
—W. E. B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Activist)

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
—John Dryden (English Poet)

Opportunities are often things you haven’t noticed the first time around.
—Catherine Deneuve (French Actor)

Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (American Atheist Politician)

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk… it’s all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.
—Arthur Rubinstein (Polish-born American Composer)

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
—John Foster Dulles (American Lawyer)

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)

Time is the greatest of all tyrants. As we go on toward age, he taxes our health, limbs, faculties, strength, and features.
—John Foster Dulles (American Lawyer)

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to popular belief, is more powerful in the mature than the young.
—W. Somerset Maugham (French Playwright)

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
—Robert Kiyosaki (American Businessperson)

I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (American Atheist Politician)

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh (American Author, Aviator)

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)

To feel much for others, and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfish, and exercise our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.
—George Goodman (American Economist)

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.
—Theodore Roosevelt (American Head of State)

See dying vegetables life sustain,|See life dissolving vegetate again;|All forms that perish other forms supply;|By turns we catch the vital breath and die.
—Alexander Pope (English Poet)

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
—Marquis de Sade (French Political leader)

Every human being who reaches the age of understanding of the purpose of money wishes for it. Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsessions, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
—Napoleon Hill (American Author)

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
—Friedrich Schiller (German Poet)

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)

A woman’s always younger than a man of equal years.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (English Poet)

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
—Napoleon Hill (American Author)

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
—John W. Foster

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.
—Norman Cousins (American Journalist)

By criticizing other people, we are increasing the behavior that we object to.
—Steve Chandler

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
—Christopher Morley (American Journalist)

You have to believe in happiness or happiness never comes.
—Douglas Malloch

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
—Michel Foucault (French Philosopher)

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
—Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese Buddhist Religious Leader)