My Favorite Quotes

1. Motivational

    * Failure defeats losers. Failure inspires winners.
                                                  - Robert T. Kiyosaki 

    * The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
                                                  - Eleanor Roosevelt

    * You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
                                                  - Buddha


     * You cannot believe in god until you believe in yourself
                                                  - Vivekananda.

     * Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional.
                                                  - Buddha

     * Rather go to bed without dinner than to raise in debt.
                                                  - Benjamin Franklin

     * An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.                                                  
                                                 - Benjamin Franklin


     * I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.
                                                  - Confucius


     * A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
                                                  - Kahlil Gibran

    * God created the world, Man invented the boredom.
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    * When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
                                                 - Confucius

    * If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
                                                 - Sir Isaac Newton

    * I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
                                                 - Sir Isaac Newton

    * If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
                                                 - Sir Isaac Newton

    * Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
                                                 - Confucius

    * A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what a ship is built for.

                                                 - William Shedd

    * If I don't feel the fire in my belly, I will soon find it in my bums.
                                                - Saravanan Palanisamy (It is me :-))

    * Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. 
                                               - Mark Twain 
     *  We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
                                             - Einstein

    * Change breaks the brittle.
                                            - Jan Houtema

    * When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
                                           - Joseph.P.Kennedy.

    * The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act.
                                            - Tara Ploughman

2. Writing and Reading

    *  Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.
                                              - Stephen King

   * Description begins in the writer's imagination but should end with the reader's.
                                             - Stephen King on Open endedness

   * Feedback : Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
                                             - Stephen King