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Quotes by Indian Authors
"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment."
"The more you know yourself, the less you depend on external validation."
"One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity."
"Dance like no one is watching, love like you have never been hurt."
"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."
"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame."
"Man should forget his anger before he goes to sleep."
"You can change friends but not neighbours."
"I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come."
"Caste, community will rapidly disappear. We have to speedily forget all these things. Such boundaries hamper our growth."
"You must be a light unto yourself."
"Unity breeds strength, and discipline forges resilience - the recipe for overcoming any challenge."
"I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved."
"Performance with purpose is basically PepsiCo saying that companies can no longer perform and toss costs to society. We believe that the new future is public-private partnerships, where companies feel responsible for society at large."
"Wishing you a joyous Ganesh Chaturthi! May Lord Ganesha remove all obstacles and bring peace and happiness into your life."
"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something, and it is only such love that can know freedom."
"Accept yourself as you are, and that is the beginning of wisdom."
"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves."
"The past is no more and the future is not yet: both are unnecessarily moving in directions which don't exist."
"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."
"When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent?Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind."
"The echoes of 'Vande Mataram' and 'Jai Hind' remind us of the struggles and triumphs that shaped our nation. Let's honor this legacy with our actions."
"Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die."
"Take to the path of dharma - the path of truth and justice. Don't misuse your valor. Remain united. March forward in all humility, but fully awake to the situation you face, demanding your rights and firmness."
"There is a very delicate line between pornography and beauty. A naked woman is not necessarily pornographic; a naked man is not necessarily pornographic. A beautiful man, a beautiful woman, naked, can be examples of beauty, of health, of proportion. They are the most glorious products of nature. If a deer can be naked and beautiful-and nobody thinks the deer is pornographic-then why should it be that a naked man or woman cannot be just seen as beautiful?"
"Human language is the new UI layer, bots are like new applications, and digital assistants are meta apps. Intelligence is infused into all of your interactions."
"Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends."
"Unity in diversity is India's strength, and discipline is the glue that binds us together."
"Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life itself."
"My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated."
"The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly."
"Forget the past, it is dead. The future is unknown. Live in the now."
"You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature."
"May the lights of Diwali shine bright in your life, bringing peace, prosperity, and endless happiness. Let's celebrate with family and friends with love and joy!"
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