Shayri Quotes

Loyalty over everything.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

A noble character is the highest possible attainment of humanity.

When you're the most successful person in your family,

in your neighborhood,

and in your town,

everybody thinks you're the First National Bank,

and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.

Grief can take care if itself,

but to get the full value of a joy

you must have somebody to divide it with.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do,

but doing it like you love it.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

You own everything that happened to you.

Tell your stories.

If people wanted you to write warmly about them,

they should have behaved better.

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

In religion,

all other countries are paupers;

India is the only millionaire.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

You will not be punished for your anger,

you will be punished by your anger.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,

it is time to pause and reflect.

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.

Cowards die many times before their deaths;

the valiant never taste of death but once.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka

is the dream of youth of the nation.

My message for the youth is to collectively work for

an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

Be yourself;

everyone else is already taken.

The mind is everything.

What you think you become.

Just because something doesn't do

what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Leadership to me means duty,

honor,

country.

Where there is no vision,

there is no hope.