Quotes by Indian Authors - Page 3

Do not wait for leaders do it alone person to person.
Mother Teresa
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Buddha
No one succeeds without effort. ... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.
Ramana Maharshi
The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
Rabindranath Tagore
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.
Mahatma Gandhi
A man who is afraid will do anything.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Do not say "It is morning " and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore
Tranquillizers do not change our environment nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers fears or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated the spark and brilliance are also gone.
Indra Devi
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother Teresa
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other men. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Hindustani proverb
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
It is not what we do it is how much love we put in the doing.
Mother Teresa
If you judge people you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Mahatma Gandhi
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount.
Hindu proverb
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
Indira Gandhi
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore
We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope always hope.
Mother Teresa
Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.
Satya Sai Baba
Men are cruel but man is kind.
Rabindranath Tagore
Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs all mortal creatures exist depending upon one another.
Hindu proverb
When you learn to live for others they will live for you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Help your brother's boat across and your own will reach the shore.
Hindu proverb
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
Mother Teresa
True happiness consists in making others happy.
Hindu proverb
Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
No one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.
Garuda Purana
The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.
Meher Baba
We have believed-and we do believe now-that freedom is indivisible that peace is indivisible that economic prosperity is indivisible.
Indira Gandhi
God the Great Giver can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single lane.
Rabindranath Tagore
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something.
Indira Gandhi
A man becomes like those whose society he loves.
Hindu proverb
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others they will live for you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
He who endures penance and hardships for another delights in that person's company.
Malik Muhammad Jayasi
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first . . . when you learn to live for others they will live for you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
Buddha
Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mohandas Gandhi
To a man with an empty stomach food is god.
Mahatma Gandhi
If you ask the hungry man how much is two and two he replies four loaves.
Hindu proverb
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Smile at each other smile at your wife smile at your husband smile at your children smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent conquer him with love.
Mahatma Gandhi
A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith even so is he.
Hindu proverb
Faith is the function of the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into.
Mahatma Gandhi
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.
Jawaharlal Nehru
If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determination the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Through zeal knowledge is gotten through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.
Buddha
Experience cold or heat pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.
Sri Krishna
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
Rabindranath Tagore