Gujrati Quotes

The human race is a race of cowards;

and I am not only marching in that procession

but carrying a banner.

The common question that gets asked in business is,

Why?

That’s a good question,

but an equally valid question is,

Why not?

Why are we,

as a nation so obsessed

with foreign things?

Is it a legacy of

our colonial years?

We want foreign television sets.

We want foreign shirts.

We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with

everything imported?

Life can only be understood backwards;

but it must be lived forwards.

Nations consist of people.

And with their effort,

a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

The difference between the almost right word

and the right word is really a large matter

'tis the difference between the lightning

bug and the lightning.

If we are not free,

no one will respect us.

Success is not a good teacher,

failure makes you humble.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Her absence is like the sky,

spread over everything.

You have power over your mind—not outside events.

Realize this,

and you will find strength.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,

I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Usually,

when I'm rappin',

I'm creating a big story,

a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

You can either see yourself as a wave,

in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.

New opinions are always suspected,

and usually opposed,

without any other reason but because they are not already common.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

As we look ahead into the next century,

leaders will be those who empower others.

The present is theirs;

the future,

for which I really worked,

is mine.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company,

the enemy of the mediocre.