Gujarati Quotes

Efficiency is doing things right;

effectiveness is doing the right things.

It was the best of times,

it was the worst of times.

Where there is no vision,

there is no hope.

You can get help from teachers,

but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself,

sitting alone in a room.

You don’t take a photograph,

you make it.

Once you learn that,

you'll never be the same again.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty,

and we must rise with the occasion.

As our case is new,

so we must think anew and act anew.

Fan the sinking flame

of hilarity with the

wing of friendship;

and pass the rosy wine.

Older men declare war.

But it is the youth that must fight and die.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non

educated family,

yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

My books are like water;

those of the great geniuses are wine.

(Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

I very rarely think in words at all.

A thought comes,

and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

I learned to read at age three,

and soon discovered there was a whole world,

to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

I like criticism.

It makes you strong.

When we quarrel,

how we wish we had been blameless.

Don’t follow the path.

Go where there is no path and begin the trail.

My observation is that

whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty...

it is worse executed by two persons,

and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

After two years at UCLA,

I decided to leave.

I was convinced that no amount of education

would help a black man get a job.

I will not lose,

for even in defeat,

there’s a valuable lesson learned.

Happiness is secured through virtue;

it is a good attained by living well.