DAILY ESSENTIAL THOUGHTS

Thomas Jefferson

2008-06-06T15:59:00.001+05:30

Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.

Rene Descartes

2008-06-04T16:35:00.000+05:30

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Joe Paterno

2008-05-30T05:40:00.000+05:30

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Will Rogers

2008-05-25T20:20:00.000+05:30

If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone, ‘America died from a delusion that she has moral leadership.

John Wilmot

2008-05-22T21:26:00.001+05:30

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

Orison Swett Marden

2008-05-18T18:55:00.000+05:30

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

Samuel Johnson

2008-05-18T09:49:00.000+05:30

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Albert Einstein

2008-05-16T13:33:00.000+05:30

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Anthony Robbins

2008-05-15T17:21:00.000+05:30

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result,
they get better answers.

Henry Miller

2008-05-15T06:53:00.001+05:30

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

Anthony J D’Angelo

2008-05-11T18:02:00.000+05:30

You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

2008-05-09T05:35:00.000+05:30

This commitment to their own idea of India and their central role in its economic rise makes the middle classes sure of themselves. But at the same time, their sense of citizenship is weak: they do not, on the whole, extend a sense of solidarity to the poor; they often do not acknowledge the role of the state in their own rise or its capacity to solve any of the country's problems; and they are, in general, politically apathetic.
In Prospect.

Colin Powell

2008-05-06T21:43:00.000+05:30

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

Confucius

2008-05-02T20:19:00.002+05:30

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Sidney Madwed

2008-05-02T06:50:00.000+05:30

To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, happy and successful thoughts twenty-four hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts.
These two types of thought cannot coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all.

Lao Tse

2008-04-30T20:05:00.000+05:30

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

Peter Lynch

2008-04-29T15:22:00.000+05:30

It's absolute crap that people need to spend 60 hours a week analyzing companies, ... All you need are a few stocks to make money. If you find one stock a year, that's plenty. When I was running Magellan I had to find one a week but that was because I had billions of dollars. The average person needs only a few good stocks in a lifetime.

Dorothy Parker

2008-04-27T15:53:00.000+05:30

Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

Abraham Lincoln

2008-04-24T22:49:00.000+05:30

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Gustave Flaubert

2008-04-22T20:06:00.000+05:30

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Swami Vivekananda

2008-04-21T20:41:00.000+05:30

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Jane Goodall

2008-04-21T19:54:00.001+05:30

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

Will Rogers

2008-04-20T16:12:00.000+05:30

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.

Zen Quotes by Alan Watts.

2008-04-19T22:27:00.000+05:30

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

Zen Thought

2008-04-18T13:19:00.002+05:30

Pain is Essential.
Suffering is Optional.

Buddhist Saying

2008-04-16T19:13:00.001+05:30

A brahmin once asked The Blessed One:
"Are you a God?"
"No, brahmin" said The Blessed One.
"Are you a saint?"
"No, brahmin" said The Blessed One.
"Are you a magician?"
"No, brahmin" said The Blessed One.
"What are you then?"
"I am awake."

Christopher Fry

2008-04-16T06:38:00.000+05:30

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Henry A. Kissinger

2007-08-30T15:44:00.001+05:30

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Clarke's First Law

2007-08-30T06:11:00.000+05:30

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Confucius

2007-08-28T23:42:00.000+05:30

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Eugene McCarthy, Time magazine,1979

2007-08-28T00:02:00.000+05:30

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Henry David Thoreau

2007-08-27T00:30:00.000+05:30

Things do not change; we change.

Michelle

2007-08-26T08:20:00.001+05:30

Money isn’t really the currency of the internet… Traffic is.

Henry Van Dyke

2007-08-26T07:07:00.000+05:30

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Mark Twain

2007-08-24T23:41:00.000+05:30

"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."

Omar Idn Al-Halif

2007-08-24T07:42:00.000+05:30

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity.

Yiddish Proverb

2007-08-22T04:27:00.000+05:30

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.

Charles Krauthammer

2007-08-14T03:59:00.000+05:30

In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.

Bertrand Russell

2007-08-12T13:44:00.001+05:30

"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."

Jef Raskin

2007-08-11T13:38:00.001+05:30

"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going."

Hyman Rickover

2007-08-10T19:29:00.000+05:30

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

Munshi Premchand

2007-08-09T23:07:00.001+05:30

“To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.”

Evan Esar

2007-08-09T16:07:00.001+05:30

"Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose."

Maya Angelou

2007-08-08T07:38:00.000+05:30

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Munshi Premchand

2007-08-07T05:34:00.000+05:30

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.

Thomas Paine

2007-08-05T19:27:00.001+05:30

What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

2007-08-03T21:35:00.001+05:30

Give us the luxuries of life and we will dispense with the
necessities.

Charles De Secondat

2007-08-03T13:22:00.000+05:30

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Publilius Syrus

2007-08-02T13:42:00.000+05:30

Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.

Persian Proverb

2007-08-02T06:26:00.000+05:30

Even the hand of compassion is stung when it strokes a scorpion.

Joel A. Barker : "The Paradigm Man"

2007-08-01T10:23:00.000+05:30

"You can and should shape your own future; because if you don't someone else surely will."

"No one will thank you for taking care of the present if you have neglected the future."

Golda Meir

2007-08-01T06:56:00.000+05:30

Don't be so humble. You're not that great.

Lord Mansfield

2007-08-01T06:55:00.001+05:30

Decide promptly, but never give your reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Aristotle

2007-07-31T12:13:00.000+05:30

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Albert Einstein

2007-07-31T02:38:00.000+05:30

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute—and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

Montgomery's Maxim

2007-07-30T12:08:00.001+05:30

If at first you don't succeed, read the manual.

Segal's Law

2007-07-30T12:02:00.001+05:30

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

The Geeta Chapter 17 Shloka 3

2007-07-28T23:35:00.000+05:30

O Arjuna, the faith of each is
In accordance with one's own nature or Sanskaara.
A person is known by the faith.
One can become whatever one wants to be.

Norman Lear on Happiness

2007-07-27T19:31:00.000+05:30

“Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.”