Shayri Quotes

As we look ahead into the next century,

leaders will be those who empower others.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless

if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

If I like a thing,

it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Challenge yourself;

it’s the only path which leads to growth.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

The idea is not to win.

If men were angels,

no government would be necessary.

I had to spend my life persuading my people

that what I was doing was the right thing.

Every actual State is corrupt.

Good men must not obey laws too well.

A man builds a fine house;

and now he has a master,

and a task for life: he is to furnish,

watch, show it,

and keep it in repair,

the rest of his days.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka

is the dream of youth of the nation.

My message for the youth is to collectively work for

an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed

everything save our modes of thinking and

we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

There is more difference in the quality

of our pleasures than in the amount.

My philosophy is: not only do we have a right to be ourselves,

we have an obligation to be ourselves.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader

and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are,

how much your contribution has been valued,

what massive potential you have and,

in recognition of all this,

would you mind having your salary halved.

I think the most important thing is to be yourself.

All mankind love a lover.

Second is the first to lose.

Life is about perseverance and embracing who you are.

I do not fear computers.

I fear the lack of them.