Best Quotes Collection.

Laughter is the language of the Gods. -Buddhist saying.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. -Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish Writer.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. -Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer.

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. -Leo C. Rosten (1908-1977) American Writer.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. -Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Dramatist and Poet.

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do. -Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer.

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw.

There are many ways to measure success; not the least of which is the way your child describes you when talking to a friend.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. -Peter Drucker.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. -Peter Drucker.

Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering. -Sextus Propertius (50BC-16AD) Roman Poet

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? -Adam Smith.

Courtesy is simply doing unto others what you would like them to dounto you. -Anonymous.

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. -Arabian Proverb.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock longenough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. -Longfellow.

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it. -George Eliot (1819-1880) English Novelist.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -Sam Kinison.

Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as anyother fragile and precious thing. -Randolph S. Bourne (1886-1918) American Writer

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to bein reality what we would appear to be. -Socrates (469-399 BC) Greek Philosopher.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. -Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish Writer.

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -Helen Keller.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we didnot sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. -Charlotte Bronte.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superiorteacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -William Arthur Ward.

A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live.

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks. -Charles Gordy.

Every man carries the bundle of his sins, upon his own back. -John Fletcher.

There is no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand. -Shakespeare, Henry VI

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. -Howard W. Newton.

The flower of meekness grows on stream of grace. -J. Montgomery

Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within. -Steven H. Coogler.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. -Glenn Clark.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. - Romain Gary.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. -A.W. Pinero.

Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly. -Mark H. McCormack.

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks,breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. -Mary Lou Cook.

Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. -Jean de la Fontaine.

The man who can't believe in himself, how can you expect him to believe in anything else ?

Don't believe what others say unless you yourselves know it to be true.

This religion is so great that even a little of it brings a great amount of good.

Why should you feel ashamed to take the name of Hindu, which is your greatest and most glorious possession.

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Failure also looks beautiful, when YOU have a loved one to support you !

Growing up is not just a continual accumulation of new learning; You have to discard some of what you learned before.

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. -Portuguese Proverb.

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. -Duguet.

Idleness is not doing nothing! It is being free to do anything and still not doing it !

If you will not when you can, you cannot when you will.

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self. -The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

To take what rightfully belongs to another, is like a Muslim eating pork, or a Hindu eating beef. Our Guru, our Spiritual Guide, stands by us, if we do not eat those carcasses. -Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes.

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. -Hindu proverb.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. -Elbert Hubbard.

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. -H. A. Overstreet.

Take time to laugh - it is the music of the soul. -An old English prayer.

A Ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for. -Albert Einstein.

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. -English proverb.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -General George S. Patton.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get therequickly. -Mabel Newcomber.

If a problem can be solved, there is no need to worry about it; If a problem can't be solved, there is no use to worry about it. -Shantideva.

It is better to lose a love, than to have loved a loser.

The art of making your dream a reality is simply remaining committed long enough for reality to catch up to your dream.

Power is the ability to do good things for others. -Brooke Astor.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good. -Calvin Coolidge.

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat thosewho can do nothing for them or to them. -Malcolm Forbes.

Anger is a prelude to courage. -Eric Hoffer.

I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. -Nikos Kazantzakis.

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures forlong-term values. -Joshua L. Liebman

Count your age with Friends but not with Years.

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. -Chinese proverb.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. -Norman MacFinan.

What is now proved was once only imagined. -William Blake.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything. -Lee Iococca.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. -Ralph W. Sockman.

Age, is a matter of the mind... If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart. -Charles Dickens.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice how he acts when he loses money. -New England Proverb.

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. -Buddhist Proverb.

If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. -David Viscott.

The Dream is not what you see in sleep, Dream is the thing which does not let you sleep. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

The Best Time To Do Something Significant Is Between Yesterday And Tomorrow.

If you want to calm the hunger of a man for a day, give him a fish. If you want to calm his hunger for life, teach him how to fish. -Chinese proverb.

Death comes to all. But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. -George Fabricius.

Radiate friendship and it will be returned tenfold. -Henry P. Davidson.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought inour life, or in the life of another. -Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -Hellen Keller.

If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is. -Gehlek Rinpoche.

Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is whatmakes it permanent. -Marilyn vos Savant.

An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.

A mind is like a parachute. It only works when it’s open !

That which can be taken away by death is worthless to . Accumulate something that death cannot destroy. -Osho.

Between yesterday's regrets and tomorrow's dreams is today's opportunity.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feelfulfilled. -Dr. Benjamin Spock.

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. -William H. Sheldon.

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

Be a rose which gives fragrance even to those who crushes it.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave." - Joseph Campbell, American Author, Editor, Philosopher and Teacher (1904-1987)

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. -Octavio Paz.

The greatest sin is fear. -Swami Vivekanand.

The secret of life is not enjoyment, but education through experience. -Swami Vivekanand.

We lose the need to be perfect and adopt a saner way of viewing our lives. -Robin Sharma.

It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing.

The Lord does not partake in the good and evil deeds of any person; judgment is clouded when wisdom is obscured by ignorance. But ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the Self within. -Bhagavad Gita.

Humility is a virtue until one becomes proud of it.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Education to a man is just to a man and education to a woman is education to the whole family !

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. -Laurence J. Peter.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. -Frederick Douglass.

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -Lucille Harper.

What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all. -Harry S. Truman.

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool. -Francois Voltaire.

He who asks may be a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. . -Proverb.

A man remains wise as long as he seeks wisdom. The minute he thinks he has found it, he becomes a fool. -Proverb.

Conscience gets the credit most of the time, where as it should actually go to cowardice- Mark Twain.

Never bother about setbacks and difficulties in life. Difficulties sharpen the intellect and strengthen the mind.

You are making progress if each mistake is a new one.

When there is a conflict between the heart and the brain, let the heart be followed. -Swami Vivekananda.

Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers. -Greek Proverb.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. -Cary Grant.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better. - Harry S Truman.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better. - Harry S Truman.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers. -Maya Angelou Quotes.

Don't be afraid to go with your instincts always remember if it feels good it can't be wrong.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. -Anatole France.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. -George Bernanos.

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. -Calvin Coolidge.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. -Swami Vivekananda.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.