Favourite Quotations of famous scientists, writers, leaders and speakers.

1. Favourite Quotations
(Collected by Tejasvi Anant)
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A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.-
Eliphas Lavi
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” ― Albert Einstein
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No
other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-
being of the people. – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.-Victor Hugo
A friend is a gift you give yourself.-Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.-Elbert Hubbard
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field
.-Niles Bohr
A great man is different from an eminent one is that he is ready to be the servant of the
society. – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
A minute's success pays the failure of years.-Robert Browning
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry
and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
A goal without plan is just a wish.-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.-Plato
Anger is one letter away from danger.-Eleanor Roosevelt
B
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but responsible
confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.-Norman Vincent Peale
Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in
nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.-Charlie Chaplin

2. Brevity is the soul of wit.-William Shakespeare
C
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the
tree is the real thin.-Abraham Lincoln
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.-Cecil B. De Mille
Common sense is best sense I know of.-Lord Chesterfield
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.-Indian Proverb
D
Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.-Pubilius Syrus
Don't cry because it's over. smile because it happened.-Theodor Seuss Geisel
Death is more universal then life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.-A Sachs
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.-Anonymous
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"Educate!, Organize!, Agitate!" – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.-Vernon
Sanders Law
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.-Pablo
Picasso
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul ,and paints his own nature into his pictures.-Henry
Ward Beecher
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.-William
Barclay
Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the force and material
of nature for the benefit of the human race.-Henry G. Stott
Everything flows, nothing stays still.-Heraclitus

3. Energy is eternal delight.-William Blake
Every woman deserves to be told she is beautiful..
Everyone deserves to be told she is beautiful... Like the moon, come out from behind the
clouds! Shine.
"Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love, gift to that person, a beautiful
thing."-Mother Teresa.
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.- Adelle Davis
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country
must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class. – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Existence wants your life to become a festival....because when you are unhappy ,you also
throw unhappiness all around.-Osho
Everybody needs someone to know who they really are.-J.T LeRoy
F
Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.-Trey Parker and
Matt Stone
“Flying, with your love, shining, with your love, riding, with your love. I feel like I'm on top
of the world with your love.” ― Cher Lloyd
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.-Mahatma
Gandhi
For every minute you are anger, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.-Anonymous
G
Good manners will open doors that the education cannot.-Clarence Thomas
Glory is like a circle in the water ,which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,-Till by broad
spreading it disperses to naught.-William Shakespeare
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.-Albert Einstein
Good laws have their origins in bad morals.- Ambrosius Macrobius.

4. H
Hope is a waking dream.-Aristotle
Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are, it solely relies on what you
think - Buddha
"Hope" is the thing with feathers ......that perches in the soul .....and sings the tune without
the words....and never stops ...at all.
.....happiness gives us the energy is the basis of health.-Henri-Frederic Amiel
“Happiness is a direction, not a place.” Sydney J. Harris
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with
economics. Vested interest have never been known to have willingly divested themselves
unless there was sufficient force to compel them. – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.-Benjamin Disraeli
I
I don’t take good pictures ’cause I have the kind of beauty that moves. Ani DiFranco
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and
then advise them to do it.-Harry S Truman
If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your
mouth shut.-Albert Einstein
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have
achieved. – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
I think of you with every waking moment of my life and dream of you with every dream that
I have; I miss you.- Kong Moua
If you have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I see, I here, I understand. I gain knowledge, I perform and that makes me grate.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, l earn more, do more and become more, you are
a leader.-John Quincy Adams
Imagination is more important than knowledge... -Albert Einstein

5. Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you
imagine and at last you create what you will.-George Bernard Shaw
Invention is the mother of necessity,-Thorstein Veblen
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is
dangerous and dreadful.- Samuel Johnson
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God-Mary Daly
If at first you don't succeed ,failure may be your style.-Quentin Crisp
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity. – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
I hear and I forget., I see and I remember., I do and I understand.-Copernicus
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong. -Mo Udall
J
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist.-
Margaret Cho
Just become a child, and your eyes will be able to see the point. And from that moment,
growth goes on happening.- Osho
L
Life should be great rather than long. – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.-Victor Hugo
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politics gets sick,
medicine must be administered. – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.-James Joyce
Much learning does not teach understanding.-Heraclitus
My home is not a place, it is people.-Lois McMaster Bujold
Man are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering.
Otherwise both will wither and die. – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

6. “Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from
behind the clouds! Shine.” Siddhartha Gautama
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. -John Erskine
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No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honer has been the reward for what he
gave.-Calvin Coolidge
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.-Napoleon Bonaparte
Never advice anyone to go to war or to marry.-Spanish Proverb
Never give advice unless asked.-German proverb
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he
wanted to spend his whole life answering.- Nicole Krauss
P
Poverty is the mother of crime.-Magnus Aurelius
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society
is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.-Elmer G. Letterman
R
Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no
logical end. ~ Scott Adams
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man
who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.-Albert
Einstein
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The
moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is

7. an essence of the true religious act. – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Repetition is the death of art.-Robin Green
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.-Roy Goodman
Real Integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did
it or not.-Oprah Winfrey
S
Strong reasons makes strong actions.-William Shakespeare
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.-Josh Billing
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of
no avail to you. – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Son, always tell the truth .Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.-
Sam Rayburn
Susses is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.-Sir
Winston Churchill
Shattered dreams are a hallmark of our moral life.-Martin Luther King
“Sister. She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your
witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in
crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the
dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink.
Some days, she's the reason you wish you were an only child.” ― Barbara Alpert
T
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I
advise.-Gore Vidal
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. Maria Mitchell
The man how has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.-Hasidic Saying
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.-Albert Einstein
The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united

8. integrated modern India. – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be
felt with the heart.-Helen Keller
The great end of life is not knowledge but action .- Thoms H. Huxley'
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong .-Mahatma Gandhi
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends. – Dr. B. R.
Ambedkar
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.-Josh Billings
The earth laughs in flowers.-R. W. Emerson
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time .-Abraham Lincoln
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.-Seneca
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.- General Douglas MacArthur
The face is the soul of the body.-Ludwig Wittgenstein
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let
the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea and just leave every
other idea alone. This is the way to success. - Swami Vivekananda
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Use soft word and hard arguments.-English proverb
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his
being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the
development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
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Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.-English
Proverb
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social
system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our

9. fundamental rights. – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.-Charles Caleb Colton
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the truth.”-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighbouring
communities.-Dalai Lama
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.-Francois de La
Rochefoucauld
Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other
with the remotest accuracy.-Martha Beck
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.-Austin Phelps
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.-John Dewey
When you miss me just look up to the night sky and remember, I’m like a star; sometimes
you can’t see me, but I’m always there. – Jayde
Y
You haven't lost your smile at all, it's right under your nose. You just forgot it was there.
We are Indians, firstly and lastly. – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
You can't change the music of your soul.-Bhagavad Gita
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.-M. K. Gandhi
“You’re beautiful, just the way you are. Shine on. And dare anyone to turn off the
lights.” ― Mandy Hale
You are the sun in our day, the wind in our sky, the waves in our ocean and the beat in our
heart… we Miss You … our missing is like a star; sometimes you can’t see it, but it always
there.