TNPSC General English PART C | 17. Famous Quotes – Who said this? | (Authors and Their Literacy Works) Study Materials

TNPSC General English – PART C (Authors and Their Literacy Works) Study Materials

17. Famous Quotes – Who said this?

17. Famous Quotes – Who said this?

1. The most beautiful thing in world cannot be seen or even touched but just felt in the heart – Helen Keller.
2. Man is born free but is everywhere in the chains – Jean Jacques Rousseau.
3. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life. Think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. –                        Swami Vivekananda.
4. One should lift oneself by one’s own efforts and should not degrade oneself. For one’s own self is one’s own friend and one’s own self is one’s one enemy – Bhagavad Gita.

5. Envy is ignorance and imitation is suicide – Emerson.

6. Those who have to aim high have to walk alone –Abdul kalam

7. Appearances are deceptive –Oscar Wilde.

9. The highest result of education is tolerance –Helen Keller.
10. I tried hard to control my thoughts and my mind to influence my destiny – Abdul Kalam.

10. It rains because there are some good people in that place. But it benefits everyone who lives there –Avvayar.

11. Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering – Gandhi.

12. You win or fail be the best of whatever you are – Douglas malloch.

13. If you can dream it, you can do it –Walt Disney.

14. Man is a political animal – Aristotle.

15. A thing of beauty is joy for ever – John Keats.
16. Success is not something to wait for; it Is something to work for – Jessica Cox.
17. Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer – Carl Sandburg.
18. The squirrel said to the mountain If I can’t carry forests on my basic, Neither can You crack a nut!” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
19. Such as thy words are, such will thine affections be esteemed; and such as thine affections, will be thy deeds; and such as thy deeds will be thy life  – Socrates.
20. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
21. “Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. – Rudyard Kipling.
22. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”– Dale Carnegie.
23. The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well. – Henry W. Longfellow.
24. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”– Thomas A. Edison.
25. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”– Robert Kiyosaki.
26. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” –Winston Churchill.
27. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” –Dalai Lama.
28. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” –Muhammad Ali.
29. “Your voice can change the world.” –Barack Obama.
30. “The whole world is my native land” “I was not born for one corner” “The journey
    matters as much as the goal. Listen to the sounds of nature. Take care of our fragile
    planet” – Kalpana Chawla.
31. “Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it” – Confucius.
32. “Under the wide and starry sky dig the grave and let me lie”– R.L. Stevenson.
33. “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but
    they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night”– H.W. Longfellow.
34. It means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every
    battle”. – Edwin C. Bliss.

Mahatma Gandhi

• “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
• “You must be the change you wish to see in the world”
• “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

Jawaharlal Nehru

• “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
• “Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.”
• “Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
• “What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.”
• “Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.”
• “The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.”
• “Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.”
• “Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.”
• “Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.”

 Mother Teresa (Hungry, God, Love)

• “Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best”
• “We cannot do great things. We can only do little things with great love”
• “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies”
• “Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
• “Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.”
• “I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.”
• “Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
• “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
• “Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.”
• “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”

Swami Vivekananda

• “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
• “Arise, Awake and Stop not until the goal is reached”

Oscar Wilde

• “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
• “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
• “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
• “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
• “I am not young enough to know everything.”
• “Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”
• “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
• “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

Albert Einstein (Middle, Yesterday, Miracle, Infinite)

• “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”
• “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
• “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.”
• “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
  
  

Winston Churchill (Courage, Attitude)

• “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
• “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
• “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Robert Frost (Auditorium, 3 words)

• “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
• “Hell is a half-filled auditorium.”

 

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