Shayri Quotes

Character is higher than intellect.

A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

India can live without nuclear weapons.

That's our dream,

and it should be the dream of the U.S.

also.

You can fail at what you don’t want,

so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

You must take the compromise to win,

or else nothing.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Defeat is a state of mind;

no one is ever defeated until

defeat has been accepted as a reality.

I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that,

but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

Every actual State is corrupt.

Good men must not obey laws too well.

When we tackle obstacles,

we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience

we did not know we had.

And it is only when we are faced with failure

do we realise that these resources were always there within us.

We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

I never did a day's work in my life.

It was all fun.

I’ve always been a bit of a fighter.

The mystic cords of memory,

stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to

every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,

will yet swell the chorus of the Union,

when again touched,

as surely they will be,

by the angels of our nature.

Happiness cannot be pursued;

it must ensue.

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.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,

but in rising every time we fall.

I wanted to minimize the number of regrets

I had when I was 80.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

I have eclectic taste and I love vintage style mixed with glamour and old world charm.

Self knowledge involves relationship.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action

with another person.