Shayri Quotes

Save your tears for the pillow.

I’ve always believed in writing what I think,

even if it offends someone.

The fox has many tricks.

The hedgehog has but one.

But that is the best of all.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is

the first necessity of progress.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

I’ve always been a bit of a storyteller.

Ultimately,

education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth.

It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

The best way to cheer yourself

up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I once wanted to become an atheist,

but I gave up — they have no holidays.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes

its reward to the man who loves his work.

But...

I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward,

in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre,

but they are more deadly in the long run.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated.

It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

However able and faithful he may be in other respects,

people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

You have to use heart and intuition;

there has to be risk taking.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know

what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind,

but great actions speak to all mankind.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep,

one must above all be a sheep oneself.

For the last 33 years,

I have looked in the mirror every morning and

asked myself: If today were the last day of my life,

would I want to do what I am about to do today?

Journeys end in lovers meeting.