Shayri Quotes

The future is a function of the present,

not a prediction of the past.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,

compassionate with the aged,

sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong.

Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president

was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment

awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases

which were pending had a social and economic bias.

Take my wife… please.

Why was the amendment,

expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery,

voted down?

Plainly enough now,

the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche

for the Dred Scott decision.

As long as this exists,

this sunshine and this cloudless sky,

and as long as I can enjoy it,

how can I be sad?

You can never cross the ocean

unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour.

Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

I like treating things as if they’re small.

If you’re not worried about the future,

you’re not paying attention.

Truth will ultimately prevail where

there is pains to bring it to light.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,

we must carry it with us or we find it not.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

Far better is it to dare mighty things,

to win glorious triumphs,

even though checkered by failure...

than to rank with those poor spirits

who neither enjoy nor suffer much,

because they live in a gray twilight

that knows not victory nor defeat.

The most important single ingredient in

the formula of success is knowing

how to get along with people.

To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist,

that is all.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all.

In religion,

all other countries are paupers;

India is the only millionaire.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you,

or a man into voting for you,

try it till you are satisfied.

Life is like a sewer…

what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define;

Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.