Archived Quotes

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,

and urge doing.

I am content with knowing,

if only I could know.

O Alphabet and Letter in Red

Everything has beauty,

but not everyone sees it.

Buy companies with strong histories of profitability

and with a dominant business franchise.

Men love to wonder,

and that is the seed of science.

You will not be punished for your anger,

you will be punished by your anger.

I attribute my success to this

I never gave or took any excuse

Florence Nightingale

Even if you’re on the right track,

you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

The future belongs to those

who give the next generation reason for hope.

There is no substitute for hard work.

I'm not a person who wants to be a star.

I want to be an artist.

We are born believing.

A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

People don’t care how much you know

until they know how much you care.

When I took over as president,

I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it,

the more I realised that it does not prevent t

he president of India from giving the nation a vision.

So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and

in legislative assemblies;

everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required

within five years to learn English or leave the country.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

If you love it enough,

anything will talk with you.

Riches can all be lost,

but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled,

and it will bring you happiness again,

as long as you live.

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to

prevail is for enough good men to remain silent.

Friendship with a man

is friendship with

his virtue.