Shayri Quotes

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

'The Lorax' book was intended to be propaganda.

A nation’s success depends on

the character of its people.

Morality is of the highest importance

but for us,

not for God.

I told my wife the truth.

I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist.

Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist,

two plumbers, and a bartender.

We are rich only through what we give,

and poor only through what we refuse.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation

and five minutes to ruin it.

Every stumble is not a fall,

and every fall does not mean failure.

Along what dimension might this person be a superstar?

Big jobs usually go to the men

who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

Be brave.

Take risks.

Nothing can substitute experience.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do.

Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country

is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life

that one exists for other people.

If this is coffee,

please bring me some tea;

but if this is tea,

please bring me some coffee.

I wanted to know the name of every stone

and flower and insect and bird and beast,

I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life

but there was no one to tell me.

You don’t have to be a politician to be in politics.

Politics is everywhere.

I wish to preach,

not the doctrine of ignoble ease,

but the doctrine of the strenuous life.