Shayri Quotes

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

What happens to a dream deferred?

Buy into a company because you want to own it,

not because you want the stock to go up.

I have learned that

to be with those

I like is enough.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause

with his whole strength and soul can be a true master.

For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Hope begins in the dark,

the stubborn hope that if you just show up

and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.

Leadership is about putting the good of the people

above personal ambition.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can,

at the same time,

will that it should become a universal law.

Every man has his own courage,

and is betrayed because he seeks in himself

the courage of other persons.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

My uncle's dying wish

he wanted me on his lap.

He was in the electric chair.

Big jobs usually go to the men

who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

It may be laid down as a primary position,

and the basis of our system,

that every Citizen who enjoys,

the protection of a Free Government,

owes not only a proportion of his property,

but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

Arbitrary power is most easily established

on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

I’m comfortable being myself;

the rest is just acting.

We must create an economy that works for all,

not just the 1%.

It’s not about being the fastest,

it’s about being consistent.

It was the best of times,

it was the worst of times.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire,

not things we fear.