Nagesh Belludi

We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don’t believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.
—Angelina Jolie (American Actor)

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
—Edmund Burke (Irish Political leader)

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (Persian Muslim Mystic)

The expression “to write something down” suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
—William H. Gass (American Short Story Writer)

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
—William Safire (American Columnist)

Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.
—Gladys Bronwyn Stern (British Novelist)

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
—Masanobu Fukuoka (Japanese Buddhist Polymath)

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
—Jane Austen (English Novelist)

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
—Charles F. Kettering (American Inventor)

We only have one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge convention.
—Soichiro Honda (Japanese Inventor)

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
—Linus Pauling (American Chemist)

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.
—Christina Rossetti (English Poet)

What you do when you don’t have to determines what you will be when you can no longer help it.
—Rudyard Kipling (British Children’s Books Writer)

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
—Frederick Douglass (American Abolitionist)

People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.
—Brian Friel

There’s nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.
—Robert De Niro (American Actor)

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
—Earl Nightingale (American Motivational Speaker)

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one’s self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
—Michelangelo (Italian Painter)

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn’t let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.
—Andrew Grove (Hungarian-born American Businessperson)

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
—Hermann Hesse (German-born Swiss Poet)

Never make forecasts, especially about the future.
—Samuel Goldwyn (Polish-born American Film Producer)

If you perform the sacrifice of doing your duty, you do not have to do anything else. Devoted to duty, man attains perfection.
—The Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Scripture)

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
—Blaise Pascal (French Catholic Mathematician)

Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.
—Immanuel Kant (Prussian German Philosopher)

The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise their gifts, and bless and praise your own. The world would be less rich without their contributions, and it would be less rich without yours. There’s more than room for everyone; in fact, there’s a need for everyone.
—Marianne Williamson (American Activist)

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.
—Arnold Schwarzenegger (Austrian-born American Actor)

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
—Aldous Huxley (English Humanist)

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
—Edmund Burke (Irish Political leader)

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?
—Jane Austen (English Novelist)

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.
—Rudolf Bing

The mass of men lead quiet lives of desperation.
—Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.
—Turkish Proverb

We need a new ethos of greater responsibility and caring.
—Hillary Rodham Clinton (American Head of State)

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
—William James (American Philosopher)

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
—Henry Ward Beecher (American Protestant Clergyman)

If I love you, what business is it of yours?
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
—Henry Ward Beecher (American Protestant Clergyman)

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
—Marquis de Sade (French Political leader)

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.
—Thomas Edison (American Inventor)

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn of falsehoods.
—Robert A. Heinlein (American Novelist)

Riches go to that lion among men, who is industrious. Mean people say that wealth is to be given by fate. Overcome your destiny and put in best efforts by working hard. Who is there to blame if there is no accomplishment despite your efforts?
—Hitopadesha

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.
—Charles Spurgeon (British Baptist Preacher)

If you always give, you will always have.
—Chinese Proverb

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

When peace is more valued than the entertainment of the insatiable ego, it will be discovered to be ever present and available.
—David R. Hawkins

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
—Chinese Proverb

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
—Abraham Lincoln (American Head of State)

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.
—David Hume (Scottish Philosopher, Historian)

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
—Aldous Huxley (English Humanist)

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lives forever in debt to those who are kind.
—Malaysian Proverb

Luck is everything. … My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
—Alfred Hitchcock (British-born American Film Director)

There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues, but they never make it, they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven’t got the guts to make the climb.
—Cookie Lavagetto (American Sportsperson)

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
—Ray Bradbury (American Novelist)

Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures.
—Gordon B. Hinckley (American Mormon Religious Leader)

The key to compassion is that it is more fun. Generosity is more fun. The means to help others is doing it by having a good time.
—Robert Thurman (American Buddhist Scholar)

Do not let the future be held hostage by the past.
—Neal A. Maxwell (American Mormon Religious Leader)

The death of dogma is the birth of reality.
—Immanuel Kant (Prussian German Philosopher)

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
—Joyce Carol Oates (American Novelist)

You shouldn’t gloat about anything you’ve done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do.
—David Packard (American Businessperson)

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it’s a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.
—John Berger (English Art Critic, Essayist, Novelist)

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.
—Clint Eastwood (American Film Director)

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
—Aldous Huxley (English Humanist)

Conscience is the voice of values long and deeply infused into one’s sinew and blood.
—Elliot Richardson (American Lawyer)

I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.
—Steven Spielberg (American Film Director)

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
—Anatole France (French Novelist)

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
—Giovanni Ruffini

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
—Ray Bradbury (American Novelist)

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
—Turkish Proverb

We don’t have to let go, we simply have to not hold on.
—Joseph Goldstein (American Buddhist Teacher)

It’s important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.
—Russell Simmons (American Entrepreneur)

To lose patience is to lose the battle.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
—Samuel Johnson (British Essayist)

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
—Thomas Edison (American Inventor)

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
—Russian Proverb

The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.
—Glenn Beck (American Mormon Children’s Books Writer)

The journey is the reward.
—Chinese Proverb

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)

If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.
—Thomas Wentworth Higginson (American Unitarian Minister)

Whether he’s is a child, an old person or a young man, whoever comes to your house should be received with respect. A guest deserves respect by everyone.
—Hitopadesha

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
—Vince Lombardi (American Sportsperson)

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.
—G. K. Chesterton (English Journalist)

At a distance from the theater of action, truth is not always related without embellishment.
—George Washington (American Head of State)

Winners do not let themselves succumb to anything. They distract themselves by immersing themselves in their most engaging work.
—Marty Nemko (American Career Coach, Author)

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
—George Washington (American Head of State)