1. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

-Aristote
2. Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. – George Santayana, a
Spanish philosopher
3. Saving a life in jeopardy is the origin of dharma. -Mahabharat, Shanti Parva
4. Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and most
inhumane. – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
5. The state collects taxes for the larger benefits of its citizens in the same way as the sun
evaporates water only to return it later manifold in the form of rain. – Kalidasa’s
Raghuvansham
6. When we look at a chair, we see the wood, but we fail to see the the tree, the forest, the
carpenter or our own mind. If we meditate on it, we can observe the entire universe in all its
inter-woven and inter-dependent relations in the chair. – Thich Nhat Hanh
7. Don’t drink your tea like someone who gulps down a cup of coffee during a work break.
Drink it slowly, reverently, as if it is the axis on which the whole of earth revolves- slowly,
evenly and without rushing to the future. – Thich Nhat Hanh
8. The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by
cowards and its fighting by fools ------Thucydides
9. Holding onto your anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. –
Buddha
10. We are what we repeatedly do, excellence is therefore not an act but a habit. ---Aristotle
11. Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge
around doing nothing; it’s a day you’vs had everything to do and you’ve done it. –Margaret
Thatcher
12. There are only two great tragedies in life: one is not getting what you want and the other is
getting it. -Oscar Wilde
13. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him
power. Abraham Lincoln
14. The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King Jr.
15. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is mere tenacity. -Amelia Earhart
16. “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to
hear.”  – George Orwell.
17. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have –Teddy Roosevelt
18. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. -Henry Ford
19. Learn from the mistakes of the others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
---Eleanor Roosevelt
20. Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. --Harper Lee
21. What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know, it’s what we know for sure that just
ain’t so. -Mark Twain
22. We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest. –
Warren Buffet
23. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through the experience of trial and
suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved. –Helen
Keller
24. It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. –Lena Horne
25. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving
your goals. –Henry David Thoreau
26. In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It Goes On. -Robert Frost
27. It’s not that I’m so smart. It’s just that I stay with problems longer. -Albert Einstein
28. Every Man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not
exceeding the limit. –Elbert Hubbard
29. Everything we hear is an opinion not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
–Marcus Aurelius
30. It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. -Epictetus
31. I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men,
but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others. ---
Marcus Aurelius
32. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. –Leo Tolstoy
33. Life is what happens to you while you’s re busy making other plans. -John Lennon
34. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more
important than fear. Franklin Roosevelt
35. Men are born ignorant, not Stupid. They are made stupid by education. -Bertrand Russell
36. The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be
found out. -Thomas Macaulay
37. There is freedom waiting for you. On the breezes of the sky. And you ask “What if I fall?”. Oh
but my darling, What if you fly? -Erin Hanson
38. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. -Abraham Lincoln
39. I do not agree with what you have to say but I will defend to the death your right to say it. -
Voltaire
40. When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. -William
Gladstone
41. Peace and Justice are two sides of the same coin. -Eisenhower
42. The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so much dangerous to the public welfare as the
apathy of a citizen in a democracy. -Montesquieu
43. I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong. -
Mahatma Gandhi
44. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. -Plato
45. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided
men. -Martin Luther King Jr.
46. Science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind. -Einstein
47. Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world. -Nelson Mandela
48. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -
Aristotle
49. To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. -Theodore
Roosevelt
50. Those who give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither
liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin
51. Empowering Women is a pre-requisite for creating a good nation, when women are
empowered, society with stability is assured. Empowerment of women is essential as their
value system leads to the development of a good family, society and ultimately a good
nation. – Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam