Sunday, 12 January 2025

Quote Worthy

There is a lesson, a message in every one of these quotes. Sometimes the meaning might not be obvious until you have read it a couple of times and pondered upon it for a while, and sometimes the meaning becomes clear only after you have undergone certain life experiences.

Life is short and we do not have enough time to learn all the lessons in life by ourselves. However, we can get a head start in life, by paying heed to the words of wisdom, and advice of the people who have experienced life first hand.

You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want. Indecision has often given an advantage to the other fellow because he did his thinking beforehand. - Maurice Switzer

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. - Joseph Addison

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusion it may lead. - John Stuart Mill

You are not responsible for other people’s behaviour. You are only responsible for how you behave in response to other people’s behaviour. - Unknown

Never serve with the intention that you must get something in return, other than the joy of serving. Nobody will trust or support those with a heavy self-interest. - Unknown

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; this you have the power to revoke at any moment. - Marcus Aurelius

The challenge of leadership is to be strong but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humour, but without folly. - Jime Rohn

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door – or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. - Rabindranath Tagor

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