Inspiring Quotes

"Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there." Josh Billings "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw" "The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." Roger Bannister "It.s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."William Somerset Maugham "Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." Dag Hammarskjvld "Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there." Samuel Insull "Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket." Andrew Carnegie "Winning is not everything. It is the only thing." "We are what we do continously, hence, Excellence is not an act but a Habit." "Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take your breath away."; "There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down."; "A successful person is one who lays a foundation with the stones others throw at him."; "There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."; "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. --George Bernard Shaw"; " Only those who will risk going too far Can possibly find out how far one can go."; "The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. -Andrew Carnegie"; "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. - Mahatma Gandhi"; "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."; "Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. -E. Joseph Crossman"; "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."; "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. - Bruce Lee"; "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. - Elliot Carver, Tomorrow Never Dies" "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. - Bertrand Russell" You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. - Richard Bach "An invasion of armies can be stopped, but not an idea whose time has come. -Victor Hugo Emerson quotes: A man is a god in ruins. Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. The real challenge lies in winning the won game. - Leonard Barden in "The Guardian Chess book"

Other Quotes

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.- Theodore Roosevelt"; Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte On the issue of the imminent energy crisis: "Many economist-types predict that technology will save the day: 'Human ingenuity is infinite'---which is true. But so is human greed; only time will tell how these two infinites will play out in a finite world." - Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti (My Research Advisor at IIT Bombay)
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and some faith enhancing ones from the Bible (courtesy Norman Vincent Peale and his books)

The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. If God be for us, who can be against us? Romans 8:31 The kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17:21 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Matthew 7:7 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Philippians 4:13 Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Mark 11:23 They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31 In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. (Isaiah 30:15)
Some Fundoo quotes

Emerson quotes

Humorous quotes

"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes." "Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same." "A psychologist is a man who watches everyone else when a beautiful girl enters the room." "Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure." There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. "Logic is a systematic method for getting the wrong conclusion with confidence. Statistics is a systematic method for getting the wrong conclusion with 95% confidence." "If God had intended Man to program, we would be born with serial I/O ports."

Quotes about organized religion/Religion vs. Science/Evolution

Steven Weinberg, Theoretical Physicist. "Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, educator, mathematician, and social critic (1872-1970). "I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true." "Religion is based . . . mainly on fear . . . fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. . . . My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race." [quoted in Holy Horrors] Henry Louis "H.L." Mencken, American editor and critic (1880-1956). "Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt." Society without organized religion is like a crazed psychopath without a loaded .45. "To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; To explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy." -- David Brooks, 'The Necessity of Atheism' "It's often said that because evolution happened in the past, and we didn't see it happen, there is no direct evidence for it. That, of course, is nonsense. It's rather like a detective coming on the scene of a crime, obviously after the crime has been committed, and working out what must have happened by looking at the clues that remain. In the story of evolution, the clues are a billionfold" - Richard Dawkins