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1    The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by Quotations. - Benjamin Israeli.
2    To err is human and to forget is divine. - Alexander Pope.
3    Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
4    When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That is my religion. - Abraham Lincoln.
5    Valiant never taste of death but once. - Julius Caesar.
6    Float like a butterfly, but sting like a bee. - Muhammad Ali
7    The English are not very spiritual people. So, they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity. - Bernard Shaw
8    Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. - Mark Antony in Julius Caesar Play.
9    I have a dream. - Martin Luther King.
10    Philosophers should be rulers and Rulers should be philosophers. - Pluto.
11    If you want anything said, ask a man; If you want something done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher.
12    Cheer leader, saleman, debt collector and a father confessor. - Kofi Anan about his position in UN.
13    Veni, Vidi, Vici meaning I came, I saw, I conquered. - Julius Caesar.
14    The Rose by any other name would smell as sweet. - Shakespeare.
15    Water, Water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. - Sand Taylor Coleridge, mariner.
16    I have become death, the destroyer of the world. - Robert Oppenheimer, inventor of atom bomb.
17    Mankind must put an end of war, otherwise, war will put an end to mankind. - John. F. Kennedy.
18    To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war. - Winston Churchill.
19    Political power grows out of a barrel of a gun. - Mao Tse Dung.
20    There never was a good war or bad peace. - Benjamin Franklin.
21    An army marches on its stomach. - Napoleon Bonaparte.
22    As President, I have no eyes, but Constitutional eyes. I cannot see you. - Abraham Lincoln.
23    Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate; tear this wall. - Ronald Reagan.
24    Democracy is the worst system of government. But, I know none better. - Winston Churchill.
25    Who Am I, a mere Prime Minister, before the ocean of song. - Jawaharlal Nehru about M.S.Subbulakshmi.
26    In war, resolution; In defeat, defiance; In victory, magnanimity; In peace, good will. - Winston Churchill during WWII.
27    Two thirds of the decision making process is based on analysis and information, and one third is always a leap in the dark. - Napoleon Bonaparte.
28    Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. - Abraham Lincoln.
29    A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started - the fate of humanity is in his hands. - Abraham Lincoln.
30    Just as I would not like to be a slave, so I would not like to be a master. - Abraham Lincoln.
31    Thank God, I have done my duty. - Admiral Nelson.
32    It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. - Albert Einstein.
33    Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein.
34    Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis. - Albert Einstein.
35    Never stop questioning. - Albert Einstein.
36    Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert Gyorgyi.
37    Religion is a fraud, but must be maintained. - Voltaire.
38    Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children. - Ancient proverbs.
39    We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors; We borrow it from our Children. - Ancient proverbs.
40    Education is the ability to meet life's situations. - Dr.John G. Gibbon.
41    Only the educated are free. - Epictelus.
42    Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. - Francis Bacon.
43    Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed; and, a few to be chewed and digested. - Francis Bacon.
44    Discoveries are often made by not following instructions; by going off the main road; by trying the untried. - Frank Tyger.
45    In question of science, the authority of a thousand is worth that humble reasoning of a single individual. - Gallileo Galleili.
46    The living need more charity than the dead. - George Arnold.
47    The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. - George Bernard Shaw.
48    I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. - George Bernard Shaw.
49    Think not what the country has done for you; Think what you have done for the country. - John F. Kennedy.
50    Be led by reason. - Greek Proberb.
51    You do not need to justify asking questions; but, if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent. - Jacob Neusner.
52    Books are the Compass, telescopes, sextants and charts, which other men have prepared, to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. - Jessee Lee Bennett.
53    Logic is the art of making the truth prevail. - La Bruyere.
54    Whom the Gods love die young. - Lord Byron.
55    You may never know what results some of your action; but, if you do nothing, there will be no result. - Mahatma Gandhi
56    You must be the change, you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi.
57    Truth and Non-violence are my God. - Mahatma Gandhi.
58    Untouchability is a crime against God and mankind. - Mahatma Gandhi.
59    Let a hundred flowers bloom, but let a thousand schools of thought contend. . - Mao Tse Tung.
60    If you want to be original, question all truths handed down to you. . - Neils Eldridge.
61    To live life effectively is to live with adequate information. - Norbert Weiner.
62    If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orwille Wright.
63    The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. - Sans Houston.
64    The true University these days, is a collection of books. - Thomas Carlyle.
65    If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison.
66    It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong. - Voltaire.
67    Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats.
68    I have nothing to offer, but, blood, toil, tears and sweat. - Winston Churchill.
69    Give us tools, we will finish the job. - Winston Churchill.
70    Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts. - Shelly.
71    More things are wrought by prayers than this world dreams of. - Tennyson.
72    The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. - Bernard Shaw.
73    Knowledge is power. - Hobbes.
74    The best portion of a good man's life, his little nameless, un remembered acts of kindness and of love. - William Wordsworth.
75    A thing of beauty is a joy forever. - John Keats.
76    Where wealth accumulates, men decay. - William Goldsmith.
77    Beauty is truth and truth is beauty; that is all you know on earth, and , all you need to know. - John Keats.
78    Wisdom makes but a slow defence against trouble, though atlast a sure one. - John Keats.
79    There is no future in any job; the future lies in the man who holds the job. . - G.W. Crane.
80    For fools rush in, where angels fear to tread. - Pope.
81    Men errors, so long as he strives. - J.W. Von Goethe.
82    Give us good mothers, and I shall give you a good nation. - Napoleon.
83    I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to death your right to say it. - Voltaire.
84    Marriage is the only adventure open to timid. - Aristotle.
85    Man is by nature, a political animal. - Aristotle.
86    Plato is dear to me, but still is the truth. - Aristotle.
87    The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure. - Aristotle.
88    Virtue is a mean state between two vices; the one of excess and other deficiency. - Aristotle.
89    The roots of education are bitter, but fruit is sweet. - Aristotle.
90    The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates.
91    Do not count your chickens, before they hatch. - Aesop.
92    The Good of the People is the Chief Law. - Cicero.
93    Religion is the opium of the people. . - Marl Marx
94    Man is born free but everywhere he is in Chains. - Jean Jacques Rosseau.
95    One small step for man, giant leap for mankind. - Neil Armstrong.
96    You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the waters. - Rabindranath Tagore.
97    I never think of the future, it comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein.
98    Defeat comes when dreams surrender to reality. . - James A. Michener.
99    Hope is the dream of a walking man. - Aristotle.
100    The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor. The one who kneels before God, can stand upto anything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
101    Write it on your heart, that everyday is the best day of the year. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
102    You will get what you deserve, not desire. So, be deserving to get what you desire. -
103    I am not afraid of a fighter who knows about 10000 kicks. But, I am afraid of the one who has practiced one kick 10000 times. - Bruce Lee.
104    There are two motives for reading a book. One, that you enjoy it; the other you can boast about it. - Bertrand Russell.
105    I have not failed. I have just found 10000 ways won't work. - Thomas Alva Edison.
106    Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
107    Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong, it is character. - Albert Einstein.
108    To climb steep hills, requires a slow pace at first. - William Shakespeare.
109    Never take defeat. Use words like, hope, belief, faith and victory. -
110    "Trust" is the basis of all relations, but a small mistake can change its entire meaning, like the missing alphabet "T" can "Rust" the relation.
111    You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. - J.W.Von Goethe.
112    The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Gandhiji.
113    You can complain because Roses have thorns; Or, you can rejoice thorns have roses. - Tom Wilson.
114    Optimism is the father that gives birth to achievement. - Helen Keller.
115    Character in the long run, is the decisive factor in life of an individual of nations alike. - Theodore Roosevelt.
116    What a man's mind can create, man's character can control. - Thomas Edison.
117    It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favour but to be ready to kindness to others. - Aristotle.
118    Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. - Frank A Clark.
119    There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton.
120    You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
121    Fame is vapour, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures. - Horace Greely.
122    The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. - Oscar Wilde.
123    Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids. - Aristotle.
124    What lies behind us, and, what lies before us, are small matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
125    When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long
126    At the closed door that we do not see the one which has opended for us. - Helen Keller.
127     Make it a rub of life - never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy. You cannot build on it. It is only for wallowing in. - Kathering Mansfield.
128     A wiseman will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon.
129     To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. - Theodore Roosevelt.
130     Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. - Rosseau.
131     Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. - Mark Twain.
132     Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. - Benjamin Disraeli.
133     The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
134     Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal, with the intent of throwing it at someone else, you are the one who get burned.
135     Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
136     An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
137     First we form habits; then they form us; conquer your bad habits or They will conquer you.
138     A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser to day, than he was yesterday.
139     Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
140     What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
141     Every single opportunity gives you an opportunity to live. Every hour has the power to change your fate; So, do not kill the time by worrying yourself.
142     A fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
143     A dream is not what you see in your sleep. A dream is the thing which does not allow you to sleep. - APJ Abdul Kalam.
144     The Arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. - Martin Luther King.
145     Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. - Gandhiji.
146     An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. - Gandhiji.
147     God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into its nest. - J.G. Holland.
148     You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. - Gandhiji.
149     Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes. - Panchatantra.
150     Some people dream of success; while others wake up and work hard at it. -
151     One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed, they must be defended against the heaviest odds. - Gandhiji.
152     Success is more permanent when you achieve it, without destroying your principle. - Walter Cronkite.
153     Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says "Go" and a Leader says "Let us Go". - E.M.Kelly.
154     Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours, without surgery. - Mark Amidon.
155     Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. - American proberb.
156     Learn all you can from the mistakes of others; you do not have the time to make them all yourself. - Alfred Sheinwold..
157     Ideas can be life changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is one more good idea. - Jim Rohn.
158     Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy.
159     While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. - Angela Schwindt.
160     We can do not great things; only small things with great love. - Mother Teresa.
161     Our greatest glory is not in never falling; but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius.
162     Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. - Michael Jordan.
163     It does not matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. - Ralph Marston.
164     Man's success is not measured by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits the bottom. - George S. Patton.
165     Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overall and looks like work. - Thomas Edison.
166     Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. this is the secret of success. - Swami Vivekananda.
167     Courage is what it all takes to stand up speak; Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill.
168     We cannot always build the future for our youth, but, we can build our youth for the future. - Franklin D. Roosevelt.
169     Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress and working together is success. - Henry Ford.
170     I have seen more than others, it is because, I was standing on the shoulders of giants. - Sir Isaac Newton.
171     I never remember feeling tired by work; though idleness exhausts me completely. - Sherlock Holmes.