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1. “Follow what is right, and not what is established.”

2. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
3. “No great mind ever existed without a touch of madness.”
4. “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
5. “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
6. “The whole is greater than sum of its parts.”
7. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”

Confucius
1. “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” (Why revenge is bad | no
vengeance | no hatred)
2. “Consideration for others is the basis of a good life and good society.”
3. “Donʼt adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
4. “Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him
how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.” (Skill development |
knowledge | capacity building)
5. “Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.”
6. “If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant
trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.” (Planning |
longterm vision | aiming high)
7. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” (When something is good but takes
time to show result) || A cycle doesnʼt lose balance howsoever slow it may move, until it is moving.
8. “Itʼs a universal law — intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill educated
person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
(Dissent | intolerance | dissent)
9. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
10. “The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not
ask is a fool for life.”

Einstein
1. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” (Innovate | think out of
the box)
2. “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
3. “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” (Question |
dissent)
“Coincidence is Godʼs way of remaining anonymous.”
4. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned
in school.”
5. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a
tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” (Equality is not
 equity)
6. “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
7. “Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.”
8. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre
minds.”
9. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
10. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” (Vision, think beyond
reality )
11. “If you canʼt explain it to a six year old, you donʼt understand it yourself.”
12. “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the
president of the university.”
13. “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
14. “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty
desk a sign?”
15. “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with
sticks and stones.”
16. “It is not that Iʼm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
17. “If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for
reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
18. “If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science,
it would be Buddhism.”
19. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” (When everything seems going bad, there is always
a silver lining)
20. “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
21. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
22. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important
thing is not to stop questioning.”
23. “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
24. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” (Ethics)
25. “Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
26. “There are two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though
everything is a miracle.”
27. “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
28. “The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
29. “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the
crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no
one has ever been before.” (Why herd mentality is bad!)
30. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
(Ethics | values )
31. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without
changing our thinking.” (New world requires new way of thinking | importance of youth |
innovation | new ideas)
32. “The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the
people who donʼt do anything about it.”
 people who don t do anything about it.
33. “What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.” (Donʼt worry if you
do not belong to majority belief | truth remains a truth even if there is only one believer)
34. “We all know that light travels faster than sound. Thatʼs why certain people appear bright until you
hear them speak.”
35. “What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”
36. “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you
sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. Thatʼs relativity.”
37. “You never fail until you stop trying.”

Gautam Buddha
1. “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees
with your own reason and your own common
2. “Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters
most.”
3.“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good
will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”

Immanuel Kant
1. “Humans should always be treated as a end in themselves, not just as
means.”
“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”
means.” 2. “Dare to think!”

Leo Tolstoy
1. “To get rid of enemy one must love him.”
1. “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”

Mahatma Gandhi
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing
himself.”
(Self improvement)
1. “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
2. “Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always
aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
3. “A No uttered from deepest conviction is better than a YES merely uttered
to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”
4. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
5. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every manʼs needs, but not every manʼs
greed.”
6. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
7. “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then
you win.”
8. “God has no religion.” (Secularism)
9 “Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in
 9. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in
harmony.”
10. “In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.”
11. “In a gentle way you can shake the world.”
12. “My Life is My Message.”
13. “Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
14. “Seven Deadly Sins. Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience;
Science without humanity; Knowledge without character; Politics without
principle; Commerce without morality; Worship without sacrifice.”
15. “The future depends on what you do today.”
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18. “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of
the worldʼs problems.” — Climate Change | Terrorism
19. “Your beliefs become your thoughts; Your thoughts become your words;
Your words become your actions; Your actions become your habits; Your
habits become your values; Your values become your destiny.”
Beliefs thoughts words actions habits values
destiny
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21. “A man is the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
22. “Before you do anything, stop and recall the face of the poorest most
“There are people in the world so hungry, for them bread is God”
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand
heads bowing in prayer.”
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but
you will never imprison my mind.”
helpless destitute person you have seen and ask yourself, Is What I am about to do going to help him?”

1. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” Socrates

1. “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, youʼll become happy; if you get a bad one, youʼll become a
philosopher.”
2. “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
3. “Know thyself.”
4. “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
5. “There is only one good, knowledge and one evil ignorance.”

Tagore
1. “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
2. “Donʼt limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”
3. “Everything comes to us that belong to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”
4. “Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”
 5. “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
6. “You canʼt cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

Thomas A Edison
1. “5% of the people think; 10% of people think they think and the other 85% would rather die than
think.”
2. “Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.”
3. “Good fortune happens when opportunity meets preparation.”
4. “I have not failed. Iʼve just found 10,000 ways that donʼt work.”
5. “I never did a dayʼs work in my life, it was all fun.”
6. Many of lifeʼs failures are people who did not realise how close they were to
success when they gave up.
7. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is
always to try just one more time.
8. The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It
should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it
develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our
way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists
that the child must accept It does not encourage original thought or reasoning and it lays more stress