Nice thoughts

Dear All, Here are the thoughts for the day:

Thought 1: "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy"
- Norman Vincent Peale

Thought 2: "Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti


Thought 3: "Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."
- Mary Tyler Moore

Thought 4: "Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger."
- Arnold Palmer

Thought 5: "We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."
- Claude Bernard

Thought 6: "I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities."
- Whoopi Goldberg

Thought 7: "I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."
- Gilda Radner

Thought 8: "The trouble for most people is they don't decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it."
- Michael Masterson

Thought 9: "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought 10: "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Chanakya Quotes

CHANAKYA: Chanakya is considered the greatest political mind of all times (Year of Birth:350 BC Year of Death:275 BC).

Here are some of his quotes translated from his book Chanakyaniti,

* A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

* A person should not be too honest. Just as straight trees are chopped-down first, honest people are taken advantage of first.

* A rich man has many friends.

* A woman is four times as shy, six times as brave and eight times as lusty as a man.

* An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy personcan be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.

* As centesimal (hundred) droppings will fill a pot so also are knowledge, virtue and wealth gradually obtained.

* As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

* Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behindyour back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

* Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions— Why am I doing it? What the results might be? And Will Ibe successful?
Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to the questions, go ahead.

* Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

* Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

* Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

* God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

* He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision is impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

* If you get to learn something even from the worst of creatures, don't hesitate.

* In a state where the ruler lives like a common man, the citizens live like kings do. And in the state where the ruler lives like a king, the citizens live like beggars do.

* Jealousy is another name for failure.

* Never go on a long journey alone.

* Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

* Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.

* People who work sincerely are the happiest.

* One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.

* The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

* The four greatest enemies of a man are — the father who has takena loan, the characterless mother, the beautiful but promiscuous wife and the stupid child.

* The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

* The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

* There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is nofriendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

* Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat themlike a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

* Whores don't live in company of poor men, birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits and citizens never support a weak administration.

* Wise men should never go into a country where there are no means of earning one's livelihood, where the people have no dread of anybody, have no sense of shame, no intelligence, or a charitable disposition.

Thoughts

Thought 1:

"There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything
or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."

- Alfred Korzybski



Thought 2:

"We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over
them, or build with them. "

- William Arthur Ward