Gujarat Quotes

As a well

spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Work expands to fill the time available.

Do the thing we fear,

and death of fear is certain.

We especially need imagination in the pursuit of knowledge.

Intellectual growth should commence

at birth and cease only at death.

Men,

their rights,

and nothing more;

women,

their rights,

and nothing less.

The only thing in life that counts is being happy and honest.

Economic strength gives a nation confidence.

I haven’t slept for ten days,

because that would be too long.

It is not my nature,

when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles

the oppression of tyranny to make

their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens;

but rather would I do all in my power to raise

the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

I thank God for my failures

Maybe not at the time but

after some reflection.

I never feel like a failure

just because something

I tried has failed.

My home may be in Heaven,

but my work is on Earth.

A friend may well be reckoned

the masterpiece of nature.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual,

understanding of who you are,

not necessarily a religious feeling,

but deep down, the spirit within,

that you can begin to take control.

You have to take risks to achieve greatness.

When you play,

play hard;

when you work,

don't play at all.

All I required to be

happy was friendship

and people I could admire

Dream and strive,

for nothing great is achieved without vision and effort.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as

spending our lives running from it.