Nagesh Belludi

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
—Paul Simon (American Musician)

Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good to me?
—Mayer Amschel Rothschild (German Financier)

The test of any man lies in action.
—Pindar (Greek Lyric Poet)

There must be more to life than having everything.
—Maurice Sendak (American Writer, Illustrator)

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Neglect nothing; the most trivial action may be performed to God.
—Marie Angelique Arnauld (French Abbess)

The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.
—James Arthur Hadfield (British Psychoanalysts)

Discover the centre of your being and hold fast to it; only from there can you describe the perfect circle of life rounded into its absolute fullness.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta (Indian Hindu Revolutionary)

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
—Arnold J. Toynbee (British Historian)

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
—Henry Ward Beecher (American Protestant Clergyman)

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, Scholar)

Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.
—Gary Player (South African Golfer)

Private interpretation in religion is like cutting your own hair.
—Austin O’Malley (American Aphorist, Ophthalmologist)

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
—Paul Valery (French Critic, Poet)

He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much.
—Samuel Daniel (English Poet)

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
—Irving Howe (American Critic)

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another person’s life.
—Joyce Brothers (American Psychologist)

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
—Lee Iacocca (American Businessperson)

Seem not greater than thou art.
—Robert Burton (English Scholar, Clergyman)

I couldn’t wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
—Ben Hogan (American Golfer)

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
—Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.
—Reginald Horace Blyth (British Japanologist)

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
—Ben Elton (English Comedian, Writer)

The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.
—Charlie Munger (American Investor, Philanthropist)

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
—Cecil Parkinson (British Politician)

To do all the talking and not be willing to listen is a form of greed.
—Democritus (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
—Camille Pissarro (French Painter)

People entering marriage [must] enter it with a proper understanding of marriage as a God-given gift to help people grow in the virtues of love, faith and charity and to grow in unselfishness.
—A. J. Reb Materi (Canadian Clergyman)

A small spark can start a great fire.
—Emmet Fox (American New Thought Leader)

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.
—Emile de Girardin (French Journalist)

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.
—Dominique Pire (Belgian Dominican Priest)

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
—Dan Rather (American Newscaster)

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions.
—Joseph Chilton Pearce (American Author)

Writing is a struggle against silence.
—Carlos Fuentes (Mexican novelist, diplomat)

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.
—Isaac Pitman (English Educator, Inventor)

Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.
—Gelsey Kirkland (American Ballerina)

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.
—Edward Everett (American Politician)

If your self-esteem is low, perhaps focus on finding work you can succeed at. Real self-esteem comes from accomplishment.
—Marty Nemko (American Career Coach)

Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values.
—Marshall Rosenberg (American Psychologist)

The toughest part of being on a diet is shutting up about it.
—Gerald Nachman (American Entertainment Journalist)

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
—John J. Pershing (American Army Officer)

The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present—henceforth?—the subject to which you are condemned.
—Howard Nemerov (American Poet, Novelist)

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
—Anne Frank (German Holocaust Victim)

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
—Freeman Dyson (American Physicist, Author)

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
—Henri Frederic Amiel (Swiss Philosopher, Writer)

Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
—Sam Snead (American Golfer)

Better unborn than untaught.
—Scottish Proverb

Either dance well or quit the ballroom.
—Greek Proverb