Something else
Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.
-Eric Sevareid
Burning desire...
Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
-Wilfred A. Peterson
Instantly fill
Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
- Dee Hack
Deciding quickly...
"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work."
~ John G. Pollard
How you take it...
When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end.
So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
-Charles de Lint, writer (b. 22 Dec 1951)
Realizable Wish
Think success, visualize success, and you will set in motion the power force of the realizable wish.
-Norman Vincent Peale
...on purpose
Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.
-G.K. Nielson
Most of yourself
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
-Earl Nightingale
Act & React
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
-Henry Miller
Pride in work
"No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work."
- Hosea Ballou
- Hosea Ballou
Different ways
Men are divided in opinion as to the facts. And even granting the facts, they explain them in different ways.
-Edwin Abbott Abbott, schoolmaster and theologian (20 Dec 1838-1926)
For the rest of the world
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
-Don Marquis
Gain the habit
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
-Og Mandino
Experience of life
We also deem those happy, who from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills and without descanting on their weight.
-Juvenal, poet (c. 60-140)
Chief Defect
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
-Jawaharlal Nehru
Sad words
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been."
-John Greenleaf Whittier, poet (17 Dec 1807-1892)
Got to get up
Success never comes to look for you while you wait around. You've got to get up and work at making your dreams come true.
-Poh Yu Khing
It doesn't matter...
It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail.
It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
-Charles F. Kettering
Ahead of yourself
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
-Stewart B. Johnson
Important key...
"One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation."
~ Arthur Ashe
Ready hour to sow
Who waits until the wind shall keep silent
Will never find the ready hour to sow.
-Helen Hunt Jackson
Will never find the ready hour to sow.
-Helen Hunt Jackson
Tolerance and Acceptance
I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.
-Reggie Jackson
Should try to learn
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
-James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (8 Dec 1894-1961)
Risk of postponement
Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.
-Harry A. Hopf
Success thro' introspection
Many people dream of success. To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.
-Soichiro Honda
what's most important
"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got."
~ Lee Iacocca
Labeled...
Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.
-Rex Stout, novelist (1886-1975)
Spend it for...
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
~ Carl Sandburg
Get ahead of....
"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."
~ Stewart B. Johnson
When the victory is won
If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
-Louisa May Alcott, writer and reformist (29 Nov 1832-1888)
Determine Success
Self-image determines self-esteem,
self-esteem determines priorities,
and priorities determine success.
Improve the world by doing those things that legitimately boost your self-image and that of others.
-Clarence E. Hodges
Contribution to the world
When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.
-Andrew Granatelli
-Andrew Granatelli
Fall season
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
-Andre Gide, author, Nobel laureate (1869-1951)
Knowing vs Doing
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."
~ Booker T. Washington
Telling The Truth
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Service to others
To me, success is not something to be measured in power or fortune or fame. I believe a life of service to others is a successful life.
-Gerald R. Ford
Peace...peace
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
-William Cowper, poet (1731-1800)
Route to success
"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."
- Stephen A. Brennan
Recipe for success
What is the recipe for successful achievement?
To my mind there are just four essential ingredients:
Choose a career you love,
give it the best there is in you,
seize your opportunities, and
be a member of the team.
-Benjamin F. Fairless
Expending vs produce
Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.
-Charles J. Givens
Sound of your own
To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.
-Keith Degreen
உலக ஆண்கள் தினம்
நவம்பர் 19: இன்று "உலக ஆண்கள் தினம்"!!
ஆண் – அறிவின் அம்சம்.
ஆண் – ஆளுமை விளக்கம்.
ஆண் – இயல்பே வீரம்.
ஆண் – ஈவின் ஈரம்.
ஆண் – உறுதியின் தீரம்.
ஆண் – ஊழின் ஊழ்.
ஆண் – எரி தீ உழைப்பு.
ஆண் – ஏர் முனைக் காப்பு.
ஆண் – ஒருங்கு சேர் பிணைப்பு.
ஆண் – ஓய்விலா இயக்கம்.
ஆண் – ஔவியம் போற்றான்.
ஆம் – அஃதே ஆணின் அருமை!!
The second source
"Never depend on single income. Make investments to create a second source."
- Warren Buffett
- Warren Buffett
Master your Life
Time = Life.
Therefore,
waste your time and waste of your life,
or
master your time and master your life.
~ Alan Lakein
Measuring success
Success is not measured by what you do in comparison to others.
It is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.
Repeat year after year...
"It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings."
~ Ernest Hemingway
Tests of integrity
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
- Chinua Achebe, writer and professor (1930-2013)
- Chinua Achebe, writer and professor (1930-2013)
Imaginary with real
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
-Marianne Moore, poet (15 Nov 1887-1972)
Problems & Progress
Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem…. Problems are like landmarks of progress.
-Scott Alexander
-Scott Alexander
Apply energies
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
- Thomas A. Edison
Postponed success
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition.
-Herbert Kaufman
Critics - Stink like
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
~ Phyllis McGinley
Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
~ Phyllis McGinley
Absent before change
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
-Earl Nightingale
Strength to emerge
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
- Helen Keller
- Helen Keller
"MONEY IS YOURS BUT RESOURCES BELONG TO THE SOCIETY."
One of my friend told me:
Germany is a highly industrialized country. In such a country, many will think its people lead a luxurious life.
When we arrived at Hamburg , my colleagues walked into the restaurant, we noticed that a lot of tables were empty. There was a table where a young couple was having their meal. There were only two dishes and two cans of beer on the table. I wondered if such simple meal could be romantic, and whether the girl will leave this stingy guy.
There were a few old ladies on another table. When a dish is served, the waiter would distribute the food for them, and they would finish every bit of the food on their plates.
As we were hungry, our local colleague ordered more food for us.When we left, there was still about one third of un-consumed food on the table.
When we were leaving the restaurant, the old ladies spoke to us in English, we understood that they were unhappy about us wasting so much food.
"We paid for our food, it is none of your business how much food we left behind," my colleague told the old ladies. The old ladies were furious. One of them immediately took her hand phone out and made a call to someone. After a while, a man in uniform from Social Security organisation arrived. Upon knowing what the dispute was, he issued us a 50 Euro fine. We all kept quiet.
The officer told us in a stern voice, "ORDER WHAT YOU CAN CONSUME, MONEY IS YOURS BUT RESOURCES BELONG TO THE SOCIETY. THERE ARE MANY OTHERS IN THE WORLD WHO ARE FACING SHORTAGE OF RESOURCES. YOU HAVE NO REASON TO WASTE RESOURCES."
The mindset of people of this rich country put all of us to shame. WE REALLY NEED TO REFLECT ON THIS. We are from country which is not very rich in resources. To save face, we order large quantity and also waste food when we give others a treat.
(Courtesy: A friend who is now changed a lot)
VERY TRUE -"MONEY IS YOURS BUT RESOURCES BELONG TO THE SOCIETY."
Time will reveal
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
-Sri Swami Sivananda (1887-1963)
Taste of success
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-Orison Swett Marden
Don't stop trying...
Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.
-Frank Burford
Feel successful
"When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful."
~ Art Fettig
Act on...
"The idea is to make decisions and act on them –
to decide what is important to accomplish,
to decide how something can best be accomplished,
to find time to work at it and to get it done."
~ Karen Kakascik
Signs of strength
Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
-Dalai Lama
Worried much about...
I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health, or a good person who worried much about his soul.
-J.B.S. Haldane, scientist (5 Nov 1892-1964)
Turn on the lights
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
-Earl Nightingale
Practice being...
Take chances, make mistakes.
That's how you grow.
Pain nourishes your courage.
You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
-Mary Tyler Moore
Engraved face
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
-Natalie Clifford Barney, poet, playwright, and novelist (31 Oct 1876-1972)
Sense of Obligation
A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!"
"However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
-Stephen Crane, writer (1 Nov 1871-1900)
Just on the other side
We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just on the other side of failure.
-Leo F. Buscaqlia
Adult and Disguise
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
- Margaret Atwood
- Margaret Atwood
Disguised opportunities
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
-Napoleon Hill
Be Ready...
"Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet."
- Roy D. Chapin Jr.
Intention into reality
"Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it."
~ Warren Bennis
Develop the picture
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.
Hold this picture tenaciously.
Never permit it to fade–your mind will seek to develop the picture.
-Norman Vincent Peale
Accepting and Denying
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul, unbelief is denying them.
- R W Emerson
Capacity and temperament
"Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament."
- Swami Sivananda
- Swami Sivananda
Behaviour and peace
"Don't let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace"
- The XIV Dalai Lama
Learning a lot...
A fool will learn nothing from a wise man, but a wise man will learn a lot from a fool.
- Paulo Coelho
- Paulo Coelho
Right & Wrong
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Dead & Born Again
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
-Sylvia Plath, poet (27 Oct 1932-1963)
In our own minds
The first place we must win the victory is in our own minds.
If you don't think you can be successful, then you never will be.
-Joel Osteen
Set new ones...
As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.
-Les Brown
One step at a time...
"If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone."
~ Donny Osmond
Philosophy vs bumber sticker
There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
- Charles M. Schulz
- Charles M. Schulz
Looking out & in
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
-Carl Jung
Entering the door...
When you walk up to opportunities door, don't knock... Kick it in, smile and introduce yourself.
-Dwayne Johnson
Patient Attention
If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
-Sir Isaac Newton
I'm .... because I
I'm strong because I know my weaknesses.
I'm wise because I've been foolish.
I laugh because I've known sadness.
Priceless...
Million dollar ideas are a dime a dozen.
The determination to see the idea through is what's priceless.
-Robert Dieffenbach
Corner to improve
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
~ Aldous Huxley
To go hand in hand
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
-Emily Kimbrough, author and broadcaster (23 Oct 1899-1989)
Willing to pay the price...
"All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price." -Juvenal
Supreme Act
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
- Pope Paul VI
- Pope Paul VI
Sum of small efforts
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out..."
~ Robert Collier
Circumstances....make them
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
~ George Bernard Shaw
Excellence Vs Perfection
"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."
~ Harriet Braiker
Desire is governed by...
The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
-John McDonald
Dream so BIG
Have a dream so BIG that you cannot achieve it until you grow into the person who can.
-Unknown
Try something new...
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
-Brian Tracy
Sister's affections
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
-Charlotte Bronte, novelist and poet (1816-1855)
Life is mostly...
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
-Adam Lindsay Gordon, poet (19 Oct 1833-1870)
won't go far
"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are."
~ Arnold H. Glasgow
தீபாவளி சிரிப்பு வெடிகள்
மருமகள்: அத்தை, diwali ஸ்பெஷல் ஸ்வீட் நான் செய்றேன்...
அத்தை: ரொம்ப நல்லதுமா... உன் வீட்டுக்காரருக்கு அதிரசம் ரொம்ப பிடிக்கும்... செய்வியாமா ?
மருமகள்: புளி ரசத்துக்கு புளி போடணும் ...
தக்காளி ரசத்துக்கு தக்காளி போடணும்....
மிளகு ரசத்துக்கு மிளகு போடணும்....
அதிரசத்துக்கு என்ன போடணும் அத்தை ....?!?
அத்தை : 😳😵😲😮
👻💀☠👽
அம்மா: உன் பொண்டாட்டிக்கு ரொம்ப கொழுப்புடா...
மகன்: ஏன் ? என்ன செஞ்சா?
அம்மா: நான் பாலை வெச்சி பால்கோவா பண்றேன்.. நீங்க ரசத்தை வச்சி ரசகுல்லா பண்ணுங்கன்னு சொல்றா...
மகன்: 😲😮😳
👻💀☠👽
மகன்: என்னப்பா... இந்த சங்கு சக்கரம் நெருப்பு வைச்சா ஏரியல...
அப்பா: அடப்பாவி, இது அம்மா சுட்ட முருக்குடா.... உங்க அம்மா பாத்தா நமக்கு தீவாளி-யே இல்லடா....
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customer: போனில் (நகைக்கடை என நினைத்து ) என்னங்க ... தீவாளி exchange offer paththi...
ஸ்வீட்கடைக்காரர்: போன தீவாளி-க்கு எங்க கடைல வாங்கின ஸ்வீட் ஓரு கிலோ திரும்ப கொடுத்தா, இந்த வருஷம் அரை கிலோ ஸ்வீட் கொடுப்போம்...
customer : 😡🤡😇
👹👺💩
பேஷண்ட்: என்ன டாக்டர் ... சீட்-ல, மாத்திரை பேர் எழுதாம, புஷ்வாணம், சரவெடி, சக்கரம், னு எழுதி இருக்கு...
டாக்டர்: எங்க மெடிக்கல் ஷாப்-ல இந்த வாரம் பட்டாசு மட்டும் தான் விக்கிறோம்...
பேஷண்ட் : 😇🤑😫😩
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நண்பர்: நான் தீவாளி-க்கு சேதாரம் செய்கூலி இல்லாம நகை வாங்கிட்டேன்....
மற்ற நண்பர்: எந்த கடைல வாங்கன?
நண்பர்: என் மாமனார் வீட்ல வாங்கிட்டேன்....!
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மனைவி: எனக்குதான் உடம்பு சரியாயிடிச்சே... ஏன் டிஸ்சார்ஜ் பண்ணி வீட்டுக்கு கூட்டிட்டு போல... ?
கணவன்: நீ வீட்டுக்கு வந்தா போன வருஷம் மாதிரி முறுக்கு லட்டு னு தீவாளி பலகாரம் செய்ய மாட்டேன்னு சொன்னால் கூட்டிட்டு போறேன்...
மனைவி : 🙄😡😩
😂🤣😇
Someone is...
Someone is Hindu,
someone is Muslim,
someone is Christian
Everyone is hell-bent on not becoming a human being.
-Nida Fazli, poet (12 Oct 1938-2016)
Gentle & strong
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
– St. Francis De Sales
Dare & Difficult
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
– Seneca
Truth of Life
A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.
-R.K. Narayan, novelist (10 Oct 1906-2001)
To give without...
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Can & Can't Buy
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
-George H. Lorimer, editor (1867-1937)
Excellent plumber
We must learn to honor excellence in every socially accepted human activity, however humble the activity, and to scorn shoddiness, however exalted the activity. An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
-John W. Gardner, author and leader (8 Oct 1912-2002)
Peace...peace
Imagine there's no countries, /
It isn't hard to do. /
Nothing to kill or die for, /
And no religion, too. /
Imagine all the people /
Living life in peace.
-John Lennon, musician (9 Oct 1940-1980)
Correct the faults
You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
-Israel Zangwill
Most important Words
The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake.
The five most important words: You did a good job.
The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion?
The three most important words: If you please.
The two most important words: Thank You.
The one most important word: We.
The least important word: I.
-Unknown
The five most important words: You did a good job.
The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion?
The three most important words: If you please.
The two most important words: Thank You.
The one most important word: We.
The least important word: I.
-Unknown
Determines...
"It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success."
~ David Feherty
Truth & Love
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 Oct 1869-1948)
Value to yourself
"You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself."
~ Marcus T. Cicero
Walk boldly
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
-Orison Swett Marden
Sisters' affections
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
-Charlotte Bronte, novelist and poet 1816-1855)
Space between...
Do not be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
-Belva Davis
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