Shayri Quotes

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour.

Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

One of the very important

characteristics of a student

is to question.

Let the students ask questions.

Your talent is God's gift to you.

What you do with it is your gift back to God

Leo Buscaglia

When they call the roll in the Senate,

the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

The right word may be effective,

but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing,

I always tell myself,

'You can do better than this.'

Gold is good in its place;

but loving,

brave,

patriotic men are better than gold.

There’s a difference between winning and being successful.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

I don't like people around me sad.

I like making people happy.

I hate to advocate drugs,

alcohol,

violence,

or insanity to anyone,

but they’ve always worked for me.

Foreknowledge is a tool;

wisdom is knowing how to use it.

Do what you can,

with what you have,

where you are.

Success comes from persistence,

not luck.

My friends,

as I have discovered myself,

there are no disasters,

only opportunities.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty,

charm,

and adventure.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

I had practiced with the team,

and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri.

They made it quite clear to the Army that

they would not play a team with a black player on it.

Instead of telling me the truth,

the Army gave me leave to go home.