દિલ Quotes

In the end,

we create ourselves.

A good plan violently executed now is better than

a perfect plan executed next week

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

I am the way,

the truth,

and the life.

Press criticism is not pleasant,

but it is necessary.

It is part of the machinery of democracy.

It behooves every man to remember

that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance,

and that, in the end,

progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals

without ever going higher than a basement.

Human beings, regrettably,

are inherently unequal.

The road to success and greatness is always paved

with consistent hard work.

The office of president is one of endless responsibility.

I was born to make people laugh.

I have said a hundred times,

and I have no inclination to take it back,

that I believe there is no right,

and ought to be no inclination in the people

of the free States to enter into the slave States,

and to interfere with the question of slavery at all.

I have said that always.

What we seek we shall find;

what we flee from flees from us.

It is not the style of clothes one wears,

neither the kind of automobile one drives,

nor the amount of money one has in the bank,

that counts.

These mean nothing.

It is simply service that measures success.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight,

but the size of the fight in the dog.

I counted everything.

I counted the steps to the road,

the steps up to church,

the number of dishes and silverware I washed...

anything that could be counted,

I did.

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.

Among the friends of Union,

there is great diversity of sentiment

and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

It is the supreme art of the teacher

to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture.

Just get people to stop reading them.