Death Quotes

Everything should be made as simple as possible,

but not simpler.

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.

I love deadlines.

I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

I grew up in a very funny house.

I was in high school when

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

Be like water making its way through cracks.

Do not be assertive,

but adjust to the object,

and you shall find a way around or through it.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Even people who believe they deserve,

to be happy and have nice things often,

don't feel worthy once they have them.

The language of friendship

is not words but meanings.

The best executive is one who has sense

enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self

restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

There comes a time

when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge

but can never prove how it got there.

A creative man is

motivated by the

desire to achieve,

not by the desire

to beat others.

Speed matters in business.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

If we forget what we did,

we won’t know who we are.

The man of genius inspires us

with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Hope begins in the dark,

the stubborn hope that if you just show up

and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

The secret of getting ahead

is getting started