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Freedom can exist only when there is equality in all walks of life. Without equality, to talk about freedom is to deny freedom to many in the interest of a few.
Ram Manohar Lohia

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We must learn two things. One is to see ourselves as others see us. We apply one yardstick when we wish to appraise other people. Secondly, we cannot succeed in anything if we act in fear of other people's opinions.
C Rajagopalachari
Man needs a Guru. But a man must have faith in Guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his Guru as God himself.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Take care of what you think, because you are listening.
B K Shivani
When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
Arundhati Roy
May your death be a step to immortality!
Rig Veda
Each day strive to accomplish some thing that you have always thought you could not accomplish.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, But it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Gautam Buddha
When nature is channeled according to the principles of Dharma, we have culture & civilisation.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Both from the national as well as human stand point, it has become essential that we think of the principles of Bhartiya Culture.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
The philosophy is that access to energy is a means to pull people out of poverty, not an end in itself. 
Harish Hande
Spirituality is neither a privilege of the poor nor the luxury of the rich. It is the choice of the wise man.
Swami Chinmayananda
Empathy is the most essential quality a human being should possess. It helps us understand others share their pain, and offer support.
Sudha Murthy
If I die in this struggle for freedom, I am sure I will be born again and again in this great country. I shall live for my country, dream for her freedom and try with all my strength to fulfil the dreams.
Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das
Men of righteous conduct (aacharan) never utter evil words even by a slip of the tongue.
Thirukkural
Experience is less relevant than knowledge and the ability to learn and to innovate.
Vikram Sarabhai
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Annonymous
I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.
Che Guevara
I have learnt one thing in my life and I thoroughly believe in it. Don't wait for the destination, start finding happiness while you are on the journey. Don't postpone your happiness to them.
Gaur Gopal Das
To perceive the truth is wisdom, whatever be the matter and whosoever utters it.
Thirukkural
Religion can be realised. Are you ready? Do you want it? You will get the realisation if you do, and then you will be truly religious. Until you have attained realisation there is no difference between you and atheists. The atheists are sincere, but the man who says that he believes in religion and never attempts to realise it is not sincere.
Swami Vivekananda
Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.
Amartya Sen
He who has a hundred wants a thousand.
Panchtantra
The image of that dying leprosy patient was burning me like a branding iron and would not give me a moment’s rest. From that moment on I was out to conquer fear…. Where there is fear there is no love. Where there is no love there is no God.
Baba Amte
Mind is never a problem. Mindset is.
Narendra Modi
Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it which is not found in any religion.
B R Ambedkar
The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.
Paramhansa Yogananda
There never was, there never will be, nor is there now, a man who is always blamed, or a man who is always praised.
Dhammapada
As soon as you confess your sins, HE lets not a particle of it remain.
Tuka Ram
I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.
Nelson Mandela
Our aim is not to destroy the trees but to preserve them. When the men go to cut them, why don't we cling to the trees, and dare them to let their axes fall on our backs?
Chandi Prasad Bhatt
The human soul travels from the law to love, from discipline to freedom, from the moral place to the spiritual plane.
Rabindranath Tagore
Creation is the image of the creator.
Rig Veda
Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of real and unreal. In fact it is beyond all relativity.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
Sai Baba
Through tapasya, we can transform our weaknesses into strengths and our flaws into virtues.
Annonymous
Don't blame the child for forgetting lessons; make the lessons unforgettable.
Sonam Wangchuk
Teachers should be the best minds in the country.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.
Gautam Buddha
National character cannot be built on the shaky foundations of untruth, hypocrisy, ostentatious and conspicuous consumption.
Ram Manohar Lohia
I declare that every blow struck at me will prove to be the final nail in the coffin of British rule in India.
Lala Lajpat Rai
You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the Sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
Sai Baba
Request the people of my country to continue this kranti. People should continue to fight even if I am not there. 
Anna Hazare
Our motivation is to help people out of poverty, not to be leading technology company.
Harish Hande
Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun…
Mao Zedong
Books are the means by which we build bridges between cultures.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
I have never been frightened of anything. Because I fought British tommies to save the honor of an Indian lady, Gandhiji called me abhay sadhak, a fearless seeker of truth. When the sweepers of Warora challenged me to clean gutters, I did so. But that same person who fought goondas and British bandits quivered in fright when he saw the living corpse of Tulshiram, no fingers, no clothes, with maggots all over. That is why I took up leprosy work. Not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is I did it to overcome fear.
Baba Amte
Give me blood, I will give you freedom. 
Subhash Chandra Bose
When you set the right targets, aspirations and do your work efficiently, diligently, numbers happen.
Anand Mahindra
Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful.
Baba Amte
Civilazations are not built of machines but of values.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
You have to treat everyday as a new challenge, and you have to remain paranoid, as they say.
Anand Mahindra
He who covets another's wife (Vyabhichar) will always sink in enmity, sin, fear and disgrace.
Thirukkural
Lack of hospitality (Atithi - Satkar) is the worst form of poverty. To bear with fools is the greatest strength.
Thirukkural
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig.
G B Shaw
Nation First. Then your Guru, your Parents and finally your God! So, the nation should always come before yourselves.
Chhatarapati Shivaji
HE and HIS Law are one. The Law is God. Anything attributed to HIM is not a mere attribute. HE is the attribute. HE is Truth, Love and Law and a million other things that human ingenuity can name.
Mahatma Gandhi
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napolean Bonapart
I am not as simple as I look.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
The end-product of education should be a free creative man, who can battle against historical circumstances and adversities of nature
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Good fortuen enquires and enters the path of a person who has abundant zeal.
Thirukkural
The right to know is the right to live.
Aruna Roy
Those with untiring and unfailing efforts will conquer even the unyielding fate.
Thirukkural
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its reason for existence.
Einstein
Lovers of God do not belong to any caste.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Truth is like the Sun. No human being can ever look straight in its face without blinking or being dazed.
R K Narayanan
We notice it between father and son, between brother and sister, friend and friend. But we have to learn to use that force among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.
Mahatma Gandhi
The power of the mind are like the rays of the Sun dissipated. When they are concentrated, they illumine.
Swami Vivekananda
We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
Martin Luther King Jr
A snake knows more about what is happening around it than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip, only direct perception.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Woman, I hold, is the impersonificaiton of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately she doesn't realize what tremendous advantage she has over men.
Mahatma Gandhi
He who can listen to music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.
Vikram Sarabhai
The problem is not the lack of resources or capability, but the lack of will.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude, when you step away.
Anand Mahindra
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs
We always hire for will, not skill. It is the attitude that matters.
Karan Bilimoria
I am an ordinary citizen and quite insignificant, but I am also a vigilant and committed journalist.
Ravish Kumar
I believe that education should be about healing the earth and dealing with the crises that we are in.
Sonam Wangchuk
If you are broken, you don't have to stay broken.
Selena Gomez
To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.
Thiruvalluvar
Covet not, nor envy, but rejoice at the fortunes of other people. Envy and selfishness break off friendship.
Gautam Buddha
Anger against the week is wrong but it is useless against the strong.
Thirukkural
An extremist or terrorist who is ready to kill resources is thereby offering to sacrifice his own life for the cause. Hence a potential extremist is an appropriate recruit for social action at a higher moral level - namely non-violent satyagraha.
Mahatma Gandhi
Science is acquaintance, not knowledge. It can never be absolute.
Osho Rajneesh
Perseverance opens up treasures which bring perennial joy.
Mahatma Gandhi
Useful, courteous, and pleasant words (Vani) bring happiness and prosperity.
Thirukkural
Man’s ultimate aim is the realization of god, and all his activities, social, political, religious, have to be guided by the ultimate aim of the vision of God. The immediate service of all human beings becomes a necessary part of the endeavor, simply because the only way to find God is to see Him in His creation and be one with it. This can only be done by service of all. I am a part and parcel of the whole, and I cannot find Him apart from the rest of humanity.
Mahatma Gandhi
If laziness remains in a man of nobility, it will make him the slave of his enemy.
Thirukkural
Tapasya is a constant reminder that we are capable of achieving greatness if we are willing to work for it.
Annonymous
The true essence of leadership lies in serving others. A leader should be humble, empathetic, and always ready to lend a helping hand.
Sudha Murthy
To rule wisely, the leader must take care to listen to all, scoff at none, ignore none.
Ramayana
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going because a straight line even in ECG means we are not alive.
Ratan Tata
Desire never abates with the enjoyment of what are desired. Like fire, fed with ghee, it grows all the more.
Adi Parva
The path of tapasya is the path of spiritual growth and self-realization.
Annonymous
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
Sai Baba
A literary genius, it is said, resembles all, though no one resembles him.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Tapasya is the art of realizing the ultimate truth through self-discipline.
Annonymous
Independance can be meaningful only if it becomes instrument for expression of our Culture.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
You must set yourself buried in God. Then only shall you live. You gain by losing. You live by dying.
Swami Sivananda
The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.
Ratan Tata

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