For this Day:

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A Thought for Today

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."
-Zig Ziglar

Thought for Todsy

"The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life."
- Brian Tracy

A Thought for Today

"A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident."
-Mahatma Gandhi

A Thought for Today

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
-Winston Churchill

Thought for Today

"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best."
-Benjamin Disraeli

A Thought for Today

"The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them."
-Bertrand Russell

A Thought for Today

"The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thought for Today

"Most of the important things have been accomplished by people who kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
-Dale Carnegie

A Thought for Today

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
-Oscar Wilde

A Thought for Today

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."
-George Washington

Thought for Today

"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."
- Winston Churchill

Bhagavad Gita Quote

A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return.

Thought for Today

"I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job."
-Lady Gaga

A Thought for Today

"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."
-Ovid

A Thought for Today

"Continuous effort -- not strength or intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential."
-Liane Cardes

Thought for Today

"Persevere...because on the road to success there is never a crowd on the extra mile!"
–Charity Gibson

Thought for Today

"Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string."
-Pele

A Thought for Today

"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done."
-Buddha

Bhagavad Gita Quote

The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it.
-Bhagavat Gita

Thought for Today

"Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price."
-Vince Lombardi

A Thought for Today

"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."
-Rene Descartes

A Thought for Today

Do not get upset with people or situations...
Both are powerless without your reactions...!

Thought for Today

"You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape."
-Woodrow Wilson

A Thought for Today

"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."
-Lord Byron

A Thought for Today

"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do."
-Lucille Ball

A Thought for Today

Failure teaches you things to avoid.
Success teaches you things to repeat.
#leadership

Thought for Today

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
- Alan Watts

Thought for Today

"A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere."
-Charles Kettering

Swami Vivekananda Quote

The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.
-Swami Vivekananda

A Thought for Today

"Nothing will come of nothing; we must dare mighty things"
–William Shakespeare

Swami Vivekananda Quote

If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.

A Thought for Today

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
-Dale Carnegie

A Thought for Today

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought for Today

Who knows what Columbus would have discovered if America hadn't got in the way. 
-Stanislaw J. Lec, poet and aphorist (1909-1966) 

A Thought for Today

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
–Anonymous

A Thought for Today

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. 

– Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thought for Today

"For every effect there is a root cause. Find and address the root cause rather than try to fix the effect."

Celestine Chua 

A Thought for Today

"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Thought for Today

"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed."
-Arthur Schopenhauer

A Thought for Today

"Be sincere; be brief; be seated."
- Franklin D Roosevelt

Cicero's Philosophy

Rome's Cicero (106 - 43 BC), "the legendary silver tongued orator" - His philosophy is still valid even today, for any country of the set globe:

1. The poor: work and work,

2. The rich: exploit the poor,

3. The soldier: protects both,

4. The taxpayer: pays for all three,

5. The wanderer: rests for all four,

6. The drunk: drinks for all five,

7. The banker: robs all six,

8. The lawyer: misleads all seven,

9. The doctor: kills all eight,

10. The undertaker: buries all nine,

11. The Politician: lives happily on the account of all ten.

Not far from the truth even today!!
No mention of the Boss!!!

Thought for Today

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
-John F Kennedy

A Thought for Today

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
-Bertrand Russell

Thought for Today

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away. 
-T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965) 

A Thought for Today

"Keep on trying...each failure is one step closer to a success"
–Thomas J. VIlord

Thought for Today

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working."
-Pablo Picasso

3 stages of Work

Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
-Swami Vivekananda

Thought for Today

"The human voice is the organ of the soul."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Thought for Today

"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero."
-Pablo Picasso

Be Quick, Be Brief, Be Gone

in Sevagram in Bapu Kuti, a small board was hung just behind Gandhiji's seat. 

 

There was a very useful threefold advice written on it: 

Be Quick,

Be Brief,

Be Gone

 

When the interviewees did not show any sign after their time was over,

even after Bapu's glance at the watch, Bapu would point at the board

and laugh loudly with his toothless mouth.

 

From The Fire and the Rose by Narayan Desai, p 637. 

Gandhi Jayanthi

"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
-Mahatma Gandhi

Quote from Mahatma Gandhi

"A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness."
-Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Mahatma Gandhi had such wisdom way beyond his time. A lot can be learned from these quotes, they are very enlightening!

1- Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

2- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

3- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

4- Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

5- You must be the change you want to see in the world.

6- You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

7- An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

8- Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

9- Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

10- God has no religion.

11- Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

12- You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

13- Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.

14- An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

15- You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.

16- The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

17- There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

18- Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

19- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

20- To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Quote from Mahatma Gandhi

"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding."
- Mahatma Gandhi

Quote from Mahatma Gandhi

"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
- Mahatma Gandhi

Thought for Today

"Lord, bless our week. May we live the life we have imagined."
- Paulo Coelho

Thought for Today

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
–John Wooden

Thought for Today

"There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier."
- Benjamin Franklin

A Thought for Today

"Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing."
-Henry David Thoreau

Swami Vivekananda Quote

We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful toward those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought to be happy; and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
-Swami Vivekananda