Nagesh Belludi

A meal without flesh is like feeding on grass.
—Indian Proverb

Effective leaders delegate, but they do not delegate the one thing that will set the standards. They do it.
—Peter Drucker (Austrian-born Management Consultant)

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents; it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that it opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning.
—Max Planck (German Theoretical Physicist)

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
—Wilhelm Reich (Austrian Psychoanalyst)

If you are sitting on a felled tree in a pine forest enjoying the sunshine you can easily forget what time it is. Not that you could forget your gold watch, just the time of day.
—Elfriede Jelinek (Austrian Author)

Since nothing is settled until it is settled right, no matter how unlimited power a man may have, unless he exercises it fairly and justly his actions will return to plague him.
—Frank A. Vanderlip (American Banker)

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
—Tom Hopkins (American Sales Coach)

Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth,’You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that, it lights the whole sky.
—Hafez (Persian Poet)

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
—Jonas Salk (American Virologist)

Before you know it, if you’re not careful, you can get to feeling sorry for everybody and there’s nobody left to hate.
—William Wharton (American Novelist, Painter)

There is hope for that genius who must overcome poverty, but there is almost none for that one who must overcome wealth.
—Muriel Strode (American Author, Businesswoman)

I think you have to have a real point of view that’s your own. You have to tell it your way. And, I think that it’s a mistake to shoot for a specific magazine’s point of view because it’s never going to be as good. You have to shoot for yourself and photograph the way you believe it.
—Mary Ellen Mark (American Photojournalist)

We will always be hungry, will always want. Our bodies and minds will always crave something, even if we don’t recognize it.
—Carmen Maria Machado (American Author, Essayist)

A panic is the stampede of our self-possession.
—Antoine de Rivarol (French Writer)

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.
—John J. McCloy (American Diplomat)

The names that do the serious damage are the ones we call ourselves. The stereotypes we give ourselves are the ones that matter in the long run, not the ones imposed on us by other people.
—Judith Rich Harris (American Psychologist)

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.
—The Hitopadesha (Indian Collection of Fables)

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (Roman Stoic Philosopher)

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
—Wayne Dyer (American Self-help Author)

The main function of a university is not to grant degrees and diplomas, but to develop the university spirit and advance learning. The former is impossible without corporate life, the latter without honours and post-graduate.
—Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Indian Philosopher, Political Leader)

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.
—John Mason Brown (American Drama Critic)

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
—Socrates (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

Truth, self control, asceticism, generosity, non-injury, constancy in virtue—these are the means of success, not caste or family.
—The Mahabharata (Hindu Religious Text)

Trying and failing isn’t a small part of life, it’s much of life. The rest is just learning how to grow from it.
—Bob Goff (American Philanthropist)

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That’s how I get my kicks.
—Donald Trump (American Businessperson, Head of State)

Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind—a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.
—Eden Phillpotts (British Writer)

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.
—Mikhail Bakunin (Russian Anarchist)

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (American Children’s Books Writer)

You can’t teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.
—Bruno Bettelheim (Austrian-born Psychoanalyst)

You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.
—Darwin P. Kingsley (American Businessman)

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities, we gain only as we give.
—William Gilmore Simms (American Novelist)

It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.
—Margaret Wander Bonanno (American Writer)

I sometimes say that success just happens. That’s not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can’t wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.
—Lew Grade (British Theatrical Impresario)

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
—Carl Clinton Van Doren (American Critic, Historian)

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
—Frank Herbert (American Science-fiction Writer)

What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (English Poet)

When the time comes, even a rat becomes a tiger.
—Japanese Proverb

We are all, it seems, saving ourselves for the Senior Prom. But many of us forget that somewhere along the way we must learn to dance.
—Alan Harrington (American Novelist)