Shayri Quotes

Cowards die many times before their death;

the valiant never taste of death but once.

We are symbols,

and inhabit symbols.

The human brain is an incredible pattern

matching machine.

Covenants without the sword are but words

and of no strength to secure a man at all.

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

Gratitude can transform

common days into

thanksgivings,

turn routine jobs into joy,

and change ordinary

opportunities into blessings.

All life is an experiment.

The more experiments you make the better.

Change is the law of life.

And those who look only to

the past or present are

certain to miss the future.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

The world is a book,

and those who do not travel read only one page.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana

is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl;

we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg

than by smashing it.

Life is messy,

but beauty is found in the struggle.

I firmly believe that

unless one has tasted

the bitter pill of failure,

one cannot aspire

enough for success.

The care of the insane is not merely a charitable duty

but a public necessity.

The great illusion is that we are what we own.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow.

The shadow is what we think of it;

the tree is the real thing.

One good thing about music,

when it hits you,

you feel no pain.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

I had no idea that being your authentic,

self could make me as rich as I've become.If I had,

I'd have done it a lot earlier.