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Quotes by Indian Authors
"Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader."
"Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?"
"May Lord Ganesha bless you with abundant happiness, prosperity, and wisdom this Ganesh Chaturthi and throughout the year."
"It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated."
"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place."
"I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India."
"The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members."
"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."
"Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom."
"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."
"Freedom is the ultimate value in life. Nothing is higher than that."
"I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up."
"At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering."
"The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on."
"Failures should never become hindrance in the learning process. Instead, we must learn from our failures to strive and overcome challenges in our lives."
"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."
"Dance like no one is watching, love like you have never been hurt."
"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment."
"The more you know yourself, the less you depend on external validation."
"Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong."
"Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career."
"Direct benefit transfer is a big reform. Earlier who knew where MNREGA money was going? Now it is sent by DBT. So are gas subsidy payments and student scholarships. For me all these are reforms in governance, transparency."
"Caste, community will rapidly disappear. We have to speedily forget all these things. Such boundaries hamper our growth."
"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action."
"My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias."
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on 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."
"The administration of a country, more than any other human activity, is carried on in the atmosphere of moral compromise."
"You must be a light unto yourself."
"Man should forget his anger before he goes to sleep."
"Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?"
"Unity breeds strength, and discipline forges resilience - the recipe for overcoming any challenge."
"Accept yourself as you are, and that is the beginning of wisdom."
"Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings."
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