· Thinking well is wise
Planning well is wiser
Doing well is wisest.
· Love and leave anger
Work and leave hunger
Laugh and live longer
· Don’t”
o Don’t speak without thinking,
Don’t act without reflecting.
· Judgment:
o At twenty years of age, the will reigns
At thirty, the wit
At forty, the judgment.
· Money:
o Money will buy a
§ BED not sleep
§ BOOK not brain
§ FOOD not appetite
§ FINERY not beauty
§ HOUSE not home
§ MEDICINE not health
§ AMUSEMENT not happiness
§ RELIGION not salvation
§ ACQUAINTANCES not friends
o Money is a good servant but bad master.
· Right effort:
o Correctness of the means employed so much that, even in face of contrary results, the means don’t change nor does the effort vary.
· He who conquers himself will acquire happiness.
· The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
· Discipline is the refining fire by which TALENT becomes ABILITY.
· It’s better to deserve an HONOUR and not have it than to have it and not deserve it.
· When Planning:
o For a year, sow corn.
for a decade, plant tree
for a life, train and educate men.
· Nine things to be kept secret:
o AGE
o MONEY
o HOME SKIRMISHES
o FORMULA
o LIASION
o MEDICINE
o PRAYER
o DONATION
o INSULT
· Everybody thinks of changing humanity, nobody thinks of changing himself.
· Be cheerful always; don’t bother for the hiccups in your life. Just do your duty.
· Never believe in a person especially woman so quickly.
· Your ideas Your philosophy rules your life.
· Only Foes:
o Proud
o Anger
o Greed
o Desire
o Liquor
· A good discussion is like a miniskirt; short enough to contain interest, long enough to cover subject.
· Never lose your dignity, honor or prestige for anything.
· Always make a friendship with a fellow who is more intelligent, capable than you.
· Self-respect is priceless. Don’t lose it.
· Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that it is faultless!
· They CAN because they THINK they CAN.
· Diplomacy is all about engaging and disengaging.
· To speak or not to speak; when that is the question, silence should take the place of speech.
· Ability is poor man’s wealth.
· Happiness comes to those who gives happiness to others
· A person’s true character is revealed by what he does when no one is watching.
· Living without planning is like swimming without knowing.
· Falling down doesn’t make you fail but staying there does.
· A quiet mind is richer than a crown.
· An act is good if it is prompted by a good motive and good will.
· Great souls have WILL, feeble souls have only WISHES.
· Calamity/Problem is the perfect glass to truly see ourselves and know ourselves.
· The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man wh can’t read them.
· Your life is what you have made by your own thoughts and actions.
· The only preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.
· It is better to have an open enemy than a doubtful friend.
· Never choose a friend by outward show, for a feather floats high while a pearl lies low.
· Don’t e afraid of enemies who attack you, be afraid of friends who flatter you.
· The spirit within you has limitless power.
· The greatest secret of life is never to be in the way of others.
· Hope, labor and success are three friends.
· There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
· Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
· Until you try, you don’t know what you cannot do.
· Winners don’t do extraordinary things, but they do things extraordinarily.
· Some:
o Some read to think- These are rare.
o Some read to write- These are common
o Some read to talk- These are majority
· Rank doesn’t confer privilege or give power; it imposes responsibility.
· It is always darkest before the day dawns
· God creates man, circumstances mould him, and conscience sustains him.
· Work keeps us from three evils:
o Boredom
o Vice
o Need
· Dream dreams because a dream leads to thought and thought leads to action.
· A soft voice is heard long after the shout.
· Dog Vs Cat and Men Vs Women
o A dog/man thinks: Hey these people I live with feed me, love me, and provide me with a nice house, they must be god!
o A cat/woman thinks: Hey these people I live with feed me, love me, and provide me with a nice house, I must be a god!
· Any natural drive when repressed would express itself in its deviant form.
· When the cat is out of the bag, its mewing can be louder than the roar of a lion in denial.
· A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than the reef.
· I don’t want to find someone I can live with
I want to find someone I can’t live without.
· I cried because I had no shoes, till I saw a man who had no feet.
· It takes a minute to like someone, and hour to love someone, but to forget someone takes a life time.
· When health is absent, wisdom can’t reveal it, art can’t manifest, strength can’t fight, wealth becomes useless and intelligence can’t be applied.
· Why do men chase women they have no intention of marrying? For the same reason dogs chase cars they have no intention of driving.
· What do ceramic tile and women have in common? If you lay them right the first time, you can walk on them for life.
· Thomas Alva Edison; after he failed 9999 times to perfect the light bulb and hadn’t succeeded, someone asked him,” Are you going to have 10000 failures?” He answered, ‘I didn’t fail. I just discovered another way not to invent the electric bulb”.
· Whether you believe you can or you believe you can’t, either way you’re right.
· The fear can become worse than the thing feared.
· Two ways to do something:
o Take some time & do it right or hurry the job and never finish.
· A captain is as good as his team
· You are only as good as your last innings
· Murphy’s Law:
o Tendency of things to go wrong will go wrong.
· The Law of averages:
o If something happens often then it will also happen regularly.
· The Parkinson’s Law:
o Any piece of work will increase to fill as much time as you have to do in it.
· Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty:
o In the act of suggesting reality, we change the reality we are looking at.
· When the chips are down, raise the stakes.
· Reverse Psychology:
Instead of pushing your case to some ridiculous level to top everyone off, you get the best of them by making yourself sound silly.
Ex- 4 guys are chatting. Everyone boasts of their conquests. Some say 25 times, some say 100 times. You get the best of them by saying that you did it only 3 times!