Alphabet Quotes

Tell me,

why is the media here so negative?

Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths,

our achievements?

We are such a great nation.

We have so many amazing success stories

but we refuse to acknowledge them.

Why?

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

The soul is healed by being with children.

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913.

I was allowed to read.

My mother, who was a teacher,

taught me when I was a very young child.

The first school I attended was a small building

that went from first to sixth grade.

There was one teacher for all of the students.

There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

Real integrity is doing the right thing,

knowing that nobody's going,

to know whether you did it or not.

Success comes from planning,

persistence, and determination.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

To hell with circumstances;

I create opportunities.

If you’re not first,

you’re last.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think

you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

The road to success is paved with mistakes,

failures, and broken strings.

All happy families are alike;

each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Being powerful is like being a lady.

If you have to tell people you are,

you aren’t.

A nation will not survive morally or economically

when so few have so much,

while so many have so little.

I would never allow anyone to give me money,

no difference how badly I needed it,

I wanted literally to earn my living.

Judge your success by

what you had to give up in order to get it.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Be water, my friend.

We especially need imagination in the pursuit of knowledge.