Thoughtful words…

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition

Indira Gandhi

 

A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow

George Patton

 

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will

 – Mahatma Gandhi

 

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some

Charles Dickens

 

Live as you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever

Mahatma Gandhi

 

Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is vital.

Aaron Levenstein

 

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling

Margoret Lee Runbeck

 

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

Paramahansa Yogananda

 

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends

Martin Luther King Jr

 

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves

U Thant

 

I am very proud that I am smart enough to get to the point

Harry Truman

 

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Quotes for all time

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

 

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe

 

You must be the change you want to see in the world

Mahatma Gandhi

 

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on

John F Kennedy

 

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about

Dale Carnegie

 

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Helen Schucman

 

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflections

Thomas Paine

 

One man with courage makes a majority

Andrew Jackson

 

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage

 – Seneca

 

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours

Henry David Thoreau

 

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