Gujarati Quotes

Travel is fatal to prejudice,

bigotry, and narrow mindedness,

and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country ,

we have those three unspeakably precious things,

freedom of conscience,

and the prudence never to practice either of them.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of

an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Cricket teaches you patience and focus.

We will be remembered only if we give to

our younger generation a prosperous and safe India,

resulting out of economic prosperity coupled

with civilizational heritage.

The value of a principle is

the number of things it will explain.

As an example to others,

and not that I care for moderation myself,

it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep,

and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

You may think it was a very little thing,

and in these days it seems to me like a trifle,

but it was a most important incident in my life.

I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy,

had earned a dollar in less than a day;

that by honest work, I had earned a dollar.

I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Many professors tell you that you'd be good at this or that,

but they don't always help you with that career path.

How people treat you is their karma;

how you react is yours.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men

and things cannot be acquired by

vegetating in one little corner of the earth.

Trust is earned,

not given.

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.

Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum

which God seeks to fill...

With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need

and the other in the hand of Christ,

He could get across the vacuum.

I have found out there ain’t no surer way to find out

whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

A disciplined mind leads to happiness,

and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

Nothing can harm you

as much as your own thoughts unguarded.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president

was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment

awarded by courts... to my surprise...

almost all cases which were pending had a social

and economic bias.

Life is like riding a bicycle.

To keep your balance,

you must keep moving.