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AVUL PAKIR JAINULABDEEN ABDUL KALAM
Born 15 October 1931 (age 79) in Rameswaram, British India
Nationality Indian
Field Science and Technology
Achievement Popularly known as Missile Man of India, Ex President of India, Bharat

Ratna.Bharat Ratna.
Quote 1: Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to
the top of your career.
Quote 2:Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
Quote 3: Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but
synthetic happiness.
Quote 4: English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that
in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we
can move over like the Japanese.
Quote 5:God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential
strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
Quote 6: I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.
Quote 7: Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
Quote 8: If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly
feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the
mother and the teacher.
Quote 9:If we are not free, no one will respect us.
Quote 10: In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
Quote 11: Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
Quote 12: Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires
only to give the best to those who dream and work.
Quote 13: Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
Quote 14 : No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or
promotion.
Quote 15: Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to
recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many
amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
Quote 16: To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
Quote 17: You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Born February 12, 1809(1809-02-12) Hodgenville, Kentucky, U.S
Died April 15, 1865(1865-04-15) (aged 56) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Nationality American
Field Politics
Quote 1 : A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Quote 2 : A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Quote 3 : Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
Quote 4 :How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t
make it a leg.
Quote 5 :All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Quote 6 : Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any
other.
Quote 7 :Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Quote 8 :Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Quote 9 :Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so
many of them.
Quote 10 :Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the
axe.
Quote 11: If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their
respect and esteem.
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ALBERT EINSTEIN
Born 14 March 1879 Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire
Died 18 April 1955 (aged 76) Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Nationality Multiple (German at Birth, US citizen at the time of Death)
Field Science
Religion Jewish
Quote 1: A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Quote 2: A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Quote 3: A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Quote 4: Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Quote 5: We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Quote 6: Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large
ones either.
Quote 7: Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.
Quote 8: No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Quote 9: When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-
hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.
Quote 10: Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the
universe.
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ARISTOTLE
Born 384 BC
Died 322 BC at age of 61-62years
Nationality Greek
Field Philosophy, Physics
Quote 1: All men by nature desire knowledge.
Quote 2: All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Quote 3:Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Quote 4: All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature,
compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Quote 5: No one loves the man whom he fears.
Quote 6: All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Quote 7: Bad men are full of repentance.
Quote 8: Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to
the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not
within everybody’s power and is not easy.
Quote 9: At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the
worst.
Quote 10: Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Quote 11: A friend to all is a friend to none.
Quote 12: Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Quote 13: Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Quote 14: Education is the best provision for old age.
Quote 15: Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we
have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what
we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE
Born 25 December 1924 (1924-12-25) (age 87)
Gwalior, British IndiaNationalityIndianProfessionPolitician, PoetAchievementVajpayee

was elected to the Lok Sabha a record nine times, Became 10th Prime Minister of India
Quote 1: Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries
could create a backlash on developed countries.
Quote 2 : In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could
solve every problem anywhere.
Quote 3: No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against
terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.
Quote 4: Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an
adversary.
Quote 5: People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that
over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from
India.
Quote 6: Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health

care, political participation and advancement of one’s own culture and social organisation.
Quote 7: The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world’s poor.
Quote 8: The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be
held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.
Quote 9: The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its
members allow it to be.
Quote 10: The UN’s unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger
purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.
Quote 11: There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its
constituent member-states.
Quote 12: We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can
play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-
border terrorism against India.
Quote 13: We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.
Quote 14: You can change friends but not neighbours.
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DR. B R AMBEDKAR
Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar / Babasaheb
Born 14 April 1891Mhow, Central Provinces, British India (now in Madhya

Pradesh
Died 6 December 1956(1956-12-06) (aged 65)Delhi, India
Nationality Indian
Profession Jurist, political leader, philosopher, anthropologist, historian, orator,

economist, teacher, and editor
Achievement 1st Law Minister of India, Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee,
Bharat Ratna
Quote 1: A great man is different from an eminent one in In that he is ready to be the servant of
the society.
Quote 2: People and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No
other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-
being of the people.
Quote 3: Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
Quote 4: Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another
country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
Quote 5: For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is
a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and
social rights.
Quote 6: History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with
economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves
unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
Quote 7: I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Quote 8: I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have
achieved.
Quote 9: In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for
development.
Quote 10: Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the
preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal
embodied in their religion denies them.
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Quote 11: Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets
sick, medicine must be administered.
Quote 12: Life should be great rather than long.
Quote 13: Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs
watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
Quote 14: Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies
society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
Quote 15: So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law
is of no avail to you.
Quote 16: The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Quote 17: The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a
united integrated modern India.
Quote 18: Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not
lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the
development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
Quote 19: We are Indians, firstly and lastly.
Quote 20: What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our
social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our
fundamental rights.
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WILLIAM HENRY “BILL” GATES III
Born October 28, 1955 (age 55)Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Field Business magnate, investor, philanthropist, author.
Achievement Founded Microsoft, without its products many people cannot imagine their
lives. He made Computers a house-hold thing. Founder of Bill & Milinda Gates
foundation.Consistently counted amongst World’s richest man.
Quote 1: Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors
and it keeps us on our toes.
Quote 2:There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But In In
Hindi :there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.
Quote 3:Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Quote 4: Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
Quote 5: Life is not fair; get used to it.
Quote 6: It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Quote 7: If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years
ago?
Quote 8: If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

Quote 9: If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be
driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
Quote 10: As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Quote 11: 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Born January 17, 1706Boston, Massachusetts Bay , America
Died April 17, 1790 (aged 84)Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, America
Field Science and Technology, Politics, Literature
Achievement Amongst the founding fathers of America.Inventor of lightning rod, glass

armonica and many others.Never patented his inventions for social benefit.
Quote 1: A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Quote 2: At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
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Quote 3: Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Quote 4: Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Quote 5: Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Quote 6: By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Quote 7: Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Quote 8: Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Quote 9: Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Quote 10: Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Quote 11: Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Quote 12: Fatigue is the best pillow.
Quote 13: God helps those who help themselves.
Quote 14: Half a truth is often a great lie.
Quote 15: Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Quote 16: He that can have patience can have what he will.
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CHANAKYA
Born 350 BC
Died 283 BC
Nationality Indian
Field Politics , Economics
Quote 1: Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it,
What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find
satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
Quote 2: A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad
consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
Quote 3: God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
Quote 4: Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
Quote 5: Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret
being determined to carry it into execution.
Quote 6:Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education
beats the beauty and the youth.
Quote 7: As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
Quote 8: Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Quote 9: As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your
soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
Quote 10: A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Quote 11: The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by
other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Quote 12: As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal
son destroy a whole family.
Quote 13: The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy
you.
Quote 14: Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them.
By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best
friends.
Quote 15: The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness
of a person spreads in all direction.
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Quote 16: The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
Quote 17: We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of
discernment deal only with the present moment.
Quote 18:There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without
self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Quote 19: Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company
and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.
Quote 20: There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a
scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
Quote 21: He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the
root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
Quote 22 : He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is
not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
Quote 23: It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes
but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.
Quote 24: Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such
friendships will never give you any happiness.
Quote 25: Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it.
People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Quote 26: Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in
adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Quote 27: There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to
contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
Quote 28: If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is
the value of other ornamentation?
Quote 29: O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of
the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
Quote 30: The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the
sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
Quote 31: One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of
others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
Quote 32: The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual
tranquility is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
Quote 33: The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its
rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
Quote 34: The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends
doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
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Quote 35: The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose
with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Quote 36: Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed
by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
SIR CHARLES SPENCER “CHARLIE” CHAPLIN

Born 16 April 1889, Walworth, London, England, United Kingdom
Died 25 December 1977 (aged 88), Vevey, Switzerland
Nationality British
Profession Actor, Comedian, Director
Achievement Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-
film era. Most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. In 1975, he was
knighted a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II.
Quote 1: A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Quote 2: The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
Quote 3: We think too much and feel too little.
Quote 4: A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.
Quote 5: Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Quote 6: Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.
Quote 7: A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance
and adventure.
Quote 8: Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Quote 9: To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Quote 10: I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
Quote 11: I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be
understood.
Quote 12: I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a
contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.
Quote 13: Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Quote 14: The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people
will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
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Quote 15: I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far
higher plane than any politician.
Quote 16: I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the
make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto
the stage he was fully born.
Quote 17: Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
Quote 18: We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each
other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.
Quote 19: Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‘elephant’.
Quote 20: I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
Quote 21: Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a
great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Quote 22: To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
Quote 23: All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the
chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Quote 24: Brunettes are troublemakers. They’re worse than the Jews.
Quote 25: All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Quote 26: I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are
disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.
Quote 27: I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was
President.
Quote 28: What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
Quote 29: Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
Quote 30: This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
Quote 31: Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.
Quote 34: I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
Quote 35: In the end, everything is a gag.
Quote 36: Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
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CONFUCIUS
Born 28 September 551 BC, Qufu, Zhou Dynasty
Died 479 BC (aged 71–72), Qufu, Zhou Dynasty
Nationality Chinese
Field Philosophy
Achievement Confucius’ thoughts have been developed into a system of philosophy known as
Confucianism
Quote 1 : A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Quote 2 : An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
Quote 3 : Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Quote 4 : I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Quote 5 : Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Quote 6 : To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
Quote 7 : Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is
sure to be failure.
Quote 8:Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Quote 9 : It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things
works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Quote 10 :By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second,
by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Quote 11 : It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Quote 12 :Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral
qualities of men.
Quote 13 : Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Quote 14 : Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
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Name Tenzin Gyatso
Born 6 July 1935 (age 76), Taktser, Qinghai, Republic of China
About He is the 14th Dalai Lama, Won Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 and is well known for his
lifelong advocacy for Tibetans inside and outside Tibet.
Quote 1: All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love,
compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
In HindiQuote 2:Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Quote 3: Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Quote 4: If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Quote 5:If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Quote 6: If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice
compassion.
Quote 7: In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.
Quote 8: It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible.
From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will
come.
Quote 9: Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot
survive.
Quote 10: My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Quote 11: Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a
new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a
meaningful day.
Quote 12: Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes
one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Quote 13: With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can
build a better world.
Quote 14: There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my
heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Quote 15: We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Quote 16: The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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Name Dale Carnegie /
Born November 24, 1888Maryville, Missouri,U.S
Died November 1, 1955 (aged 66)Forest Hills, New York
Work Areas Personal Development , Author, Motivational Speaker
Achievement Author of Best Seller “How to Win Friends and Influence PeopleYou Can Win”
Was amongst world’s most sought after motivational speakers.
Quote 1: Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
Quote 2: Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do.
Quote 3: Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
Quote 4: Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all
your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be
yours.
Quote 5: Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest
stepping stones to success.
Quote 6: Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Quote 7: Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Quote 8: Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.
Quote 9: Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
Quote 10: Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Quote 11: Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Quote 12: First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then
proceed to improve on the worst.
Quote 13: Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental
attitude.
Quote 14: If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much
of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get
the work done.
Quote 15: If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s
the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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Quote 16: If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Quote 17: If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.
Quote 18: Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
Quote 19: Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to
accomplish something they will admire.
Quote 20: It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that
makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Quote 21: You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
Quote 22: You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Quote 23: Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who
have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Quote 24: Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Quote 25: Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Quote 26: Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Quote 27: People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Quote 28: Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Quote 29: Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.
Quote 30: The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Quote 31: The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Quote 32: The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Quote 33: There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world.
We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say,
and how we say it.
Quote 34: When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but
creatures of emotion.
Quote 35: When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Dhirubhai Ambani
Name Dheerubhai Ambani /
Born 28 December 1932(1932-12-28)Chorwad, Gujarat, India
Died 6 July 2002(2002-07-06) (aged 69)Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Nationality Indian
Field Business
Achievement Founded Reliance Industries, a Fortune 500 company
Quote 1: Dhirubhai will go one day. But Reliance’s employees and shareholders will keep it
afloat. Reliance is now a concept in which the Ambanis have become irrelevant.
Quote 2:Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one’s monopoly
Quote 3: Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambitions higher.Our commitment deeper.And our
efforts greater. This is my dream for Reliance and for India.
Quote 4: We cannot change our Rulers, but we can change the way they Rule Us.”
Quote 5:You do not require an invitation to make profits.
Quote 6: Growth has no limit at Reliance. I keep revising my vision. Only when you dream it you
can do it.
Quote 7: If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow.
Quote 8: Pursue your goals even in the face of difficulties, and convert adversities into
opportunities.
Quote 9: Give the youth a proper environment. Motivate them. Extend them the support they
need. Each one of them has infinite source of energy. They will deliver.
Quote 10: Between my past, the present and the future, there is one common factor:
Relationship and Trust. This is the foundation of our growth
Quote 11: Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.
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Name Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi /
Born 19 November 1917Allahabad, United Provinces, British India
Died 31 October 1984 (aged 66)New Delhi, India
Field Politics
Nationality Indian
Achievement 3rd Prime Minister of India, Bharat Ratna, She led India as Prime Minister
during the decisive victory of East Pakistan over Pakistan in 1971 war and creation of an
independent Bangladesh.
Quote 1: A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it
can borrow from others.
Quote 2: All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at
the stake.
Quote 3: Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Quote 4: Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my
blood… will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
Quote 5: Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Quote 6: Have a bias toward action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that big
plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
Quote 7: If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will
be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
Quote 8: Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
Quote 9: My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
Quote 10: My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the
work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much
less competition.
Quote 11: One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who
want to do everything with money.
Quote 12: People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
Quote 13: The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Quote 14: There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses
that cows can be eaten.
Quote 15: There is not love where there is no will.
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Quote 16: You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Quote 17: You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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Name Karl Heinrich Marx/
Born May 5, 1818 Trier, Kingdom of Prussia
Died 14 March 1883 (aged 64) London, United Kingdom
Nationality German
Profession Philosopher, Economist, Sociologist, Historian, Journalist
Achievement Considered one of the greatest economists in history. Author of The Communist
Manifesto and Das Kapital. His philosophies got famous as MARXISM.
Quote 1: From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Quote 2: History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Quote 3: Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible
without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the
fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Quote 4: Democracy is the road to socialism.
Quote 5: Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives
the more, the more labor it sucks.
Quote 6: Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Quote 7: Religion is the opium of the masses.
Quote 8: Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot
understand.
Quote 9: Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have
nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
Quote 10: Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Quote 11: The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private
property.
Quote 12: For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Quote 13: History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is
men, real, living, who do all this.
Quote 14: The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Quote 15: If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
Quote 16: Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of
necessity.
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Quote 17: The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Quote 18: Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of
various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth – the soil
and the labourer.
Quote 19: In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living
person is dependent and has no individuality.
Quote 20: The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Quote 21: The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Quote 22: Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Quote 23: The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Quote 24: Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Quote 25: It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in
historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
Quote 26: Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under
compulsion from society.
Quote 27: Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the
soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Quote 28: Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the
relations within which these individuals stand.
Quote 29: We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that
one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is
everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.
Quote 30: The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Quote 31: Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Quote 32: Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Quote 33: Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Quote 34: Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Quote 35: The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no
means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Quote 36: A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.
Quote 37: Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the
revolt of specialized labor.
Quote 38: The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is
the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
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Quote 39: The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the
labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its
original production.
Quote 40: Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
Quote 41: The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so
active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and
production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Quote 42: The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he
cannot of course create it.
Quote 43: While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
Quote 44: Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Quote 45: The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more
does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
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Name Gautam Buddha /
Born 563 BC or 623 BCLumbini, today in Nepal
Died 483 BC or 543 BC (aged 80)Kushinagar, today in India
Quote 1 : All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an
evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows
him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Quote 2 :Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Quote 3 :All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing
remain?
Quote 4: A jug fills drop by drop.
Quote 5 : Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the
present moment.
Quote 6 :Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best
relationship.
Quote 7 : Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Quote 8 : Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Quote 9 :Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Quote 10 : You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Quote 11: An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may
wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Quote 12:Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does
not obtain peace of mind.
Quote 13:Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Quote 14:He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
Quote 15:Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at
someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Quote 16:However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they
do you if you do not act on upon them?
Quote 17:I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
Quote 18:Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of
death.
Quote 19:What we think, we become.
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Quote 20:There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a
poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates
and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Quote 21 : There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the
way, and not starting.
Quote 22 : In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the
truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Name Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi /
Born 2 October 1869
Porbandar, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died 30 January 1948 (aged 78)
New Delhi, Union of India
Nationality Indian
Field Politics,Social Work
Quote 1. A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Quote 2. A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can
alter the course of history.
Quote 3. Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at
purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Quote 4. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Quote 5. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Quote 6: Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Quote 7. Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.
Quote 8. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Quote 9. Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Quote 10. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Quote 11 : Silence is the strongest speech. Slowly and gradually world will listen to you..
Quote 12 :A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to
please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Quote 13 :All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly
proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Quote 14 :An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth
become error because nobody sees it.
Quote 15 :Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Quote 16 :Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other
will always be needed.
Quote 17 :Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the
surface brighter and clearer.
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Quote 18 :Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his
dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Quote 19 :Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Quote 20 :Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
Quote 21 :Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.
Quote 22 :I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Quote 23 : I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Quote 24: Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Quote 25: Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Quote 26: My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the
means of realising Him.
Quote 27 : My life is my message.
Quote 28: Where there is love there is life.
Quote 29: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Quote 30: When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have
always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible,
but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.
Quote 31: Seven Deadly Sins:Wealth without work;Pleasure without conscience;Science without
humanity;Knowledge without character;Politics without principle;Commerce without
morality;Worship without sacrifice.
Quote 32: God has no religion.
Quote 33: I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Quote 34: Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Quote 35: Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Quote 36: Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness.
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Quote 37: To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads
bowing in prayer.
Quote 38: The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Quote 39: Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words
become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your
values become your destiny.
Quote 40: The future depends on what you do today.
Quote 41: Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I
cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it.
On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it
even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Quote 42: Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:
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- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. -
I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting
untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.
Quote 43: You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the
ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Quote 44: The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals
are treated.
Quote 45: Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am
reborn.
Quote 46: Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Quote 47: What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the
mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or
democracy?
Quote 48: To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Quote 49: There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in
the form of bread.
Quote 50: Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.
Quote 51: It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the
strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Qute 52: Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
Quote 53: I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent.
Quote 54: You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will
never imprison my mind.
Quote 55: You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there
will be no results.
Quote 56: Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
In Hindi: और र र .
Quote 57: There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
Quote 58: You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
Quote 59: There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God
should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Quote 60: I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your
need. I feel your feelings.
Quote 61: What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are
doing to ourselves and to one another.
Quote 62: Truth is one, paths are many.
Quote 63: In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
Quote 64: There is no ‘way to peace,’ there is only ‘peace.
Quote 65: The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
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Name Lord Mahavir /
Born 599 BC
Died 527 BC
Quote 1: The greatest mistake of a soul is non-recognition of its real self and can only be
corrected by recognizing itself.
Quote 2: Silence and Self-control is non-violence.
Quote 3: Every soul is independent. None depends on another.
Quote 4: There is no separate existence of God. Everybody can attain God-hood by making
supreme efforts in the right direction.
Quote 5: Every soul is in itself absolutely omniscient and blissful. The bliss does not come from
outside.
Quote 6: Have compassion towards all living beings. Hatred leads destruction.
Quote 1: The greatest mistake of a soul is non-recognition of its real self and can only be
corrected by recognizing itself.
Quote 2: Silence and Self-control is non-violence.
Quote 3: Every soul is independent. None depends on another.
Quote 4: There is no separate existence of God. Everybody can attain God-hood by making
supreme efforts in the right direction.
Quote 5: Every soul is in itself absolutely omniscient and blissful. The bliss does not come from
outside.
Quote 6: Have compassion towards all living beings. Hatred leads destruction.
Quote 7: Respect for all living beings is non‑ violence.
Quote 8: All human beings are miserable due to their own faults, and they themselves can be
happy by correcting these faults.
Quote 9: Non-violence is the highest religion
Quote 10: A man is seated on top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest. He sees all living
beings perish. But he doesn’t realize that the same fate is soon to overtake him also. That man is
fool.
Quote 11: Fight with yourself, why fight with external foes? He, who conquers himself through
himself, will obtain happiness.
Quote 12: There is no enemy out of your soul.The real enemies live inside yourself, they are
anger, proud, greed, attachmentes and hate.
Quote 13: It is better to win over self than to win over a million enemies.
Quote 14: The soul comes alone and goes alone, no one companies it and no one becomes its
mate.
Quote 15: Can you hold a red-hot iron rod in your hand merely because some one wants you to
do so? Then, will it be right on your part to ask others to do the same thing just to satisfy your
desires? If you cannot tolerate infliction of pain on your body or mind by others’ words and
actions, what right have you to do the same to others through your words and deeds?
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Name Mother Teresa /
Born Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, August 26, 1910(1910-08-26), Üsküb, Vilayet of

Kosovo, Ottoman Empire (today’s Skopje)
Died September 5, 1997(1997-09-05) (aged 87), Calcutta, India
Nationality Indian
Field Social Work
Nationality Indian
Achievement Won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979; Founded the Missionaries of Charity in
Calcutta, India in 1950;
Quote 1: Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Quote 2: 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.
Quote 3: Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Quote 4: I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next
door neighbor?
Quote 5: If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Quote 6: I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next
door neighbor?
Quote 7: If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Quote 8: Peace begins with a smile.
Quote 9 : Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Quote 10: The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of
being unwanted.
Name Plato /
Born c. 428–427 BC[1]Athens
Died c. 348–347 BC (age approx 80), Athens
Nationality Greek
Main Interests Rhetoric, Art, Literature, Epistemology, Justice, Virtue, Politics, Education,
Family, Militarism
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Achievement Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay
the foundations of Western philosophy and science. was a Classical Greek philosopher,
mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the
Academy in Athens
Quote 1: A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Quote 2: A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an
accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Quote 3: All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however
we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Quote 4: Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Quote 5: Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous.
Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Quote 6: As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
Quote 7: At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Quote 8: Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
Quote 9: Courage is a kind of salvation.
Quote 10: Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Quote 11: Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Quote 12: Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Quote 13: Democracy passes into despotism.
Quote 14: Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess
of slavery.
Quote 15: For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Quote 16: All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for
virtue.
Quote 17: All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease,
when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the
right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Quote 18: Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Quote 19: Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will
find a way around the laws.
Quote 20: Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
Quote 21: He was a wise man who invented beer.
Quote 22: He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
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Quote 23: He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less
power.
Quote 24: Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Quote 25: How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are
a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
Quote 26: Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Quote 27: I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Quote 28: I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by
accident; they came by work.
Quote 29: I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
Quote 30: If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Quote 31: Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Quote 32: It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
Quote 33: It is right to give every man his due.
Quote 34: Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Quote 35: Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Quote 36: Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Quote 37: Love is a serious mental disease.
Quote 38: Necessity… the mother of invention.
Quote 39: No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Quote 40: No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Quote 41: No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
Quote 42: Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Quote 43: One man cannot practice many arts with success.
Quote 44: One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being
governed by your inferiors.
Quote 45: Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Quote 46: Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and
not that of any one class.
Quote 47: People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or
they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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Quote 48: Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Quote 49: Science is nothing but perception.
Quote 50: States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Quote 51: The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Quote 52: The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
Quote 53: The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest
principles.
Quote 54: The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Quote 55: The gods’ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.
Quote 56: The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Quote 57: The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Quote 58: The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
Quote 59: There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Quote 60: There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what
they cannot.
Quote 61: There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
Quote 62: There is no such thing as a lovers’ oath.
Quote 63: Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Quote 64: Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own
things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Quote 65: Your silence gives consent.
Quote 66: You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of
conversation.
Quote 67: Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say
something.
Quote 68: When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the
same amount of income.
Quote 69: When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Quote 70: Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Quote 71: Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Quote 72: Life must be lived as play.
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Quote 73: Man – a being in search of meaning.
Quote 74: We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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Name Ralph Waldo Emerson /
Born May 25, 1803Boston, Massachusetts
Died April 27, 1882 (aged 78)Concord, Massachusetts
Field Philosophy, Essayist, Poet
Achievement Led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century
Quote 1 : America is another name for opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote 2 :Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Quote 3 :It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Quote 4 : An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Quote 5 : The first wealth is health.
Quote 6 : People only see what they are prepared to see.
Quote 7 :Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Quote 8 :Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Quote 9 :Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Quote 10 :Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a
trail.
Quote 11 :If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Quote 12 :Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Quote 13 :In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Quote 14 :Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Quote 15 :Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Quote 16 :Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
Quote 17 :Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Quote 18 :For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Quote 19 :To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have
succeeded.
Quote 20:Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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Quote 21: We are wiser than we know.
Quote 22 : A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Quote 23 :Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Quote 24 :The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Quote 25 :All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Quote 26:A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Name Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan / .
Born 5 September 1888Thiruttani, Tamil Nadu, India
Died 17 April 1975 (aged 86)Chennai, India
Nationality Indian
Profession Philosopher,Professor
Achievement 2nd President of India, He was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1954,
Radhakrishnan was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature for five consecutive years from
1933–1937, although he did not win. His B’day is celebrated as Teachers’ Day ( )
Quote 1: It is not God that is worshiped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His
name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.
Quote 2: All our world organizations will prove ineffective if the truth that love is stronger than
hate does not inspire them.
Quote 3: Only the man of serene mind can realize the spiritual meaning of life. Honesty with
oneself is the condition of spiritual integrity.
Quote 4: Age or youth is not a matter of chronology. We are as young or as old as we feel. What
we think about ourselves is what matters.
Quote 5: Books are the means by which we build bridges between cultures.
Quote 6: Arts reveal to us the deeper layers of the human soul. Art is possible only when heaven
touches earth.
Quote 7: Democracy is a faith in the spiritual possibilities of not a privileged few but of every
human being.
Quote 8: A literary genius, it is said, resembles all, though no one resembles him.
Quote 9: We must recall humanity to those moral roots from which both order and freedom
spring.
Quote 10: The end-product of education should be a free creative man, who can battle against
historical circumstances and adversities of nature.
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Quote 11: Reading a book gives us the habit of solitary reflection and true enjoyment.
Quote 12: The poet’s religion has no place for any fixed doctrine.
Quote 13: It is said that a man without religion is like a horse without bridle.
Quote 14: If a man becomes demon it is his defeat, if a man becomes superman it is his magical
feat,if a man becomes human it is his victory.
Quote 15: Religion is the conquest of fear ; the antidote to failure and death.
Quote 16: Nations, like individuals, are made, not only by what” they acquire, but by what they
resign.
Quote 17: Human life as we have it is only the raw material for Human life as it might be.
Quote 18: No one Who holds himself aloof from the activities of the world and who is insensitive
to its woes can be really wise.
Quote 19: Spiritual life is the genius of India.
Quote 20: Human nature is fundamentally good, and the spread of enlightenment will abolish all
wrong.
Quote 21: One has to achieve not merely technical efficiency but greatness of Spirit.
Quote 22: Wealth, power and efficiency are the appurtenances of life and not life itself.
Quote 23: To look upon life as an evil and treat the world as delusion is sheer ingratitude.
Quote 24: A life of joy and happiness is possible only on the basis of knowledge and science.
Quote 25: Death is never an end or obstacle but at most the beginning of new steps.
Quote 26: Peace can come not by political or economic changes but through a change in human
nature.
Quote 27: Knowledge gives us power, love gives us fullness. ……
Quote 28: The greatest gift of life is the dream of a higher life.
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Name Sigmund Freud/
Born 6 May 1856, Freiberg in Mähren, Moravia (now part of the Czech
Republic), Austrian Empire
Died 23 September 1939 (aged 83), London, England, UK
Nationality Austrian
Field Psychoanalysis
Achievement Founded the discipline of psychoanalysis. Freud is best known for his theories of
the unconscious mind.
Quote 1: The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able
to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman
want?”
Quote 2:Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and
most people are frightened of responsibility.
Quote 3:If you can’t do it, give up!
Quote 4:Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Quote 5: Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Quote 6: Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.
Quote 7:The goal of all life is death.
Quote 8:Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Quote 9:Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when
they oppose it.
Quote 10: Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
Name Socrates /
Born 469 / 470 BC, Deme Alopece, AthensDied399 BC (age approx. 71),
Athens
Nationality Greek
Field Philosophy
AchievementCredited as one of the founders of Western philosophy.He was guru of Plato, who
in turn was guru of Aristotle.
Quote 1: An honest man is always a child.
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Quote 2: All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
In Hindi : र अ र , अ र और
Quote 3: As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
Quote 4: As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to
repent.
Quote 5: Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Quote 6: Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Quote 7: By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one,
you’ll become a philosopher.
Quote 8: Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Quote 9: Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that
there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
Quote 10: The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Quote 11: Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for
us.
Quote 12: Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Quote 13: From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Quote 14: False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Quote 15: Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall
gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Quote 16: He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Quote 17: It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
Quote 18: I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Quote 19: Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
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Name Steve Jobs
Born Steven Paul Jobs, February 24, 1955San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died October 5, 2011 (aged 56), Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Field Technology, Business,Innovator
Achievement Co-founder of Apple, Man behind iPad,iPhone and many more innovative Apple
products.
Quote 1: Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Quote 2: Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by
dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s
opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your
heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything
else is secondary.
Quote 3: Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Quote 4: Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?
Quote 5 :Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to
help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all
pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death,
leaving only what is truly important. 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.
Quote 6 :Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence
is expected.”
Quote 7 :A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for
them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of
customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
Quote 8 : To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can
continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.”
Quote 9: You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the
time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”
Quote 10: …because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.
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Name Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose /
Born 23 January 1897, Cuttack, Bengal PresidencyBritish India
Died Unconfirmed
Nationality Indian
Field Freedom fighter, Political leader.
AchievementHe was one of the most prominent leaders in the Indian independence movement.
And Led Indian National Army.
Quote 1: Give me blood and I shall give you freedom!
Quote 2: Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam [the truth],
shivam [the God], sundaram [the beautiful].
Quote 3: Nationalism in India has … roused the creative faculties which for centuries had been
lying dormant in our people.
Quote 4: Remember that the greatest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong.
Quote 1: Give me blood and I shall give you freedom!
Quote 2: Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam [the truth],
shivam [the God], sundaram [the beautiful].
Quote 3: Nationalism in India has … roused the creative faculties which for centuries had been
lying dormant in our people.
Quote 4: Remember that the greatest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong.
Quote 5: A true soldier needs both military and spiritual training.
Quote 6: No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions.
Quote 7: I have no doubt in my mind that our chief national problems relating to the eradication
of poverty, illiteracy and disease and the scientific production and distribution can be tackled
only along socialistic lines.
Quote 8: It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win
through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able topreserve with our own strength.
Quote 9: We should have but one desire today, the desire to die so that India may live ?the
desire to face a martyr’s death, so that the path to freedom may be paved with the martyr’s
blood.
Quote 10: As soldiers, you will always have to cherish and live up to the three ideals of
faithfulness, duty and sacrifice. Soldiers who always remain faithful to their nation, who are
always prepared to sacrifice their lives, are invincible. If you, too, want to be invincible, engrave
these threeideals in the innermost core of your hearts.
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Name Swami Vivekananda /
Born January 12, 1863 , Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died July 4, 1902 , Belur Math near Kolkata
Nationality Indian
Field Religion, Social Work
Achievement Introduced Hindu philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga in Europe and America
through his famous speech‘Sisters and Brothers of America’Founded Ramkrishna Mission.
Quote 1 : Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.
Quote 2 : Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls
immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; ye are not matter, ye are not bodies; matter is your
servant, not you the servant of matter.
Quote 3 : All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before
our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Quote 4 : As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so
different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
Quote 5 : Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your
hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Quote 6 : Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think
so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
Quote 7 : If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a
mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Quote 8 : In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.
Quote 9 : That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Quote 10 : We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words
are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Quote 11 : You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Quote 12 : Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Quote 13 : The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Quote 14 : All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the
secret of everything.
Quote 15 : The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified,
and God will be in them.
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Quote 16 : External nature is only internal nature writ large.
Quote 17 : GOD is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next
life.
Quote 18 : If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very
large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
Quote 19: Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea,
and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Quote 20: Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that
idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave
every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Quote 21 : The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the
moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am
free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Quote 22 : The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says
the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you
have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Quote 23 : When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical
or mental state.
Quote 24 : Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every
living being.
Quote 25 : You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you
spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Quote 26 : You will be nearer to heaven through football than through the study of the Gita.
Quote 27 : In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
Quote 28 : In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are
travelling in a wrong path.
Quote 29: Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in
your life.
Quote 30: Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings
Heaven even in a moment.
Quote 31: All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of
life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love’s sake, because it is the
only law of life, just as you breathe to live.
Quote 32 : The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
Quote 33: The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who
asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
Quote 34: The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.
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Quote 35: They alone live, who live for others.”
Quote 36: Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.Love is Life,
Hatred is Death.
Quote 37: We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate.The wind is blowing; those
vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have
their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind?……. We make our own
destiny.
Quote 38: Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Quote 39: Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as
poison.
Quote 40: Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion
of all else.
Quote 41: Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to
you, but do not think of that now.
Quote 42: Whatever you think that you will be.If you think yourself weak,weak you will be; if
you think yourself strong,you will be.
Quote 43: Serve man Serve god.
Quote 44: The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they
illumine.
Quote 45: Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
Quote 46: This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but
effectively breaks all its bondages.
Quote 47: A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than
a mob in a century.
Quote 48: Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to
stamp out the false ego.
Quote 49: The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Quote 50: Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.
Quote 51: Shri Ramakrishna used to say, “As Long as I Live, so long do I learn”. That man or that
society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.
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Born 15 October 1931 (age 79) in Rameswaram, British India

Field Science and Technology

Achievement Popularly known as Missile Man of India, Ex President of India, Bharat

Quote 6: I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

Quote 7: Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Quote 9:If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Died April 15, 1865(1865-04-15) (aged 56) Washington, D.C., U.S.

Nationality Multiple (German at Birth, US citizen at the time of Death)

Quote 4: Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Quote 5: We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Died 322 BC at age of 61-62years

Field Philosophy, Physics

Quote 1: All men by nature desire knowledge.

Quote 2: All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Quote 3:Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Quote 5: No one loves the man whom he fears.

Quote 6: All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Quote 7: Bad men are full of repentance.

Quote 10: Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Quote 11: A friend to all is a friend to none.

Quote 14: Education is the best provision for old age.

Gwalior, British IndiaNationalityIndianProfessionPolitician, PoetAchievementVajpayee

Quote 6: Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health

Quote 14: You can change friends but not neighbours.

Born 14 April 1891Mhow, Central Provinces, British India (now in Madhya

Died 6 December 1956(1956-12-06) (aged 65)Delhi, India

Profession Jurist, political leader, philosopher, anthropologist, historian, orator,

Quote 3: Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Quote 12: Life should be great rather than long.

Quote 19: We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

Field Business magnate, investor, philanthropist, author.

Quote 5: Life is not fair; get used to it.

Quote 8: If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

Quote 11: 640K ought to be enough for anybody.

Died April 17, 1790 (aged 84)Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, America

Field Science and Technology, Politics, Literature

Achievement Amongst the founding fathers of America.Inventor of lightning rod, glass

Quote 5: Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Quote 6: By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Quote 9: Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Quote 10: Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Quote 12: Fatigue is the best pillow.

Quote 13: God helps those who help themselves.

Quote 14: Half a truth is often a great lie.

Field Politics , Economics

Quote 4: Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Quote 10: A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

SIR CHARLES SPENCER “CHARLIE” CHAPLIN

Died 25 December 1977 (aged 88), Vevey, Switzerland

Profession Actor, Comedian, Director

Quote 1: A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Quote 2: The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Quote 3: We think too much and feel too little.

Quote 4: A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

Quote 5: Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Quote 8: Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Quote 10: I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Quote 35: In the end, everything is a gag.

Died 479 BC (aged 71–72), Qufu, Zhou Dynasty

Quote 2 : An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Quote 3 : Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.