Thought for the Day

This section is for the famous quotes, and motivational comments. Mr Shiv Naik has been a very active contributer for this section.

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"Strange is our situation hereupon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the stand point of daily life, however; there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of others… for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realized how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labours of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received"
- Albert Einstein

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream." -- Mark Twain.

"You are where you are today because you stand on somebody's shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself if you stand on the shoulders of others. You have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. It's the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give" -- Vernon Jordan, in a speech at Harward University, 2002.

"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." -- Muhammad Ali

"If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you." -- Charles Kingsley

"Most people come into our lives and quickly go.
More people move our souls to dance.

They awaken us to understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
They stay in our lives for a while, leave footprints on our hearts".
--Anonymous

“To laugh is to risk appearing a fool,

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental,

To reach out for another is to risk involvement,

T expose feelings is to risk rejection,

To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule,

To love is to risk not being loved in return,

T go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure”.

----Anonymous
A commentary on the above quote by Shiva abbalkaje

But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The risk we take must be moderate in the sense that it is neither gambling (high risk) nor very low (like with a intention to win- fighting with a child or setting a very low standard of achievement in life like " I am trying to pass in the exams or I am appearing to an interview" statements in place of "I am preparing to get rank or I am preparing to get the job --"). The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or identified in the crowd. Is it worth living without taking the risk of achieving something?
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Kings and Warriors were trained and groomed in jungles and simple ashramas. They learnt by being with a Guru and by doing everything themselves (not by their parents doing their son/daughter's home work!)while braving all situations. Making it to the Olympics and winning medals cannot happen by using computers and calculators but based on mental make up followed by hard and regular practices. A cow doesnot give milk. It has to be extracted drop by drop. In similar ways medals dont come by themselves. Medals has to be won by putting hard work and regular practices.

Shiva Gabbalkaje Naik

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"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today"- Malcolm X

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"Udyamena hi sidhyanti kaarayani na manorathaiahe,
Nahi suptasya Simhasya prabisanti mukhe Mrgah"- Sanskrit Proverb.
[Means: EFFORT only makes achieving a goal. Mere desire doesnot. No animal will enter the mouth of a sleeping lion]

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The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg- Not by smashing it--- Charles Haddon

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Youth means energy and ambition, ambivalence and enthusiasm. They are full of vim, vitality and vigour. They can make thinks or mar things. Given the proper guidance one can achieve anything through the friends.
Monappa

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" The longert you look back , the further you can look forward".

WINSTON CHURCHILL

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"The person who is not hungry says that the coconut has a hard shell."
-- African Tribal Saying
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"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time." -- Goethe
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"Somewhat I can'nt believe that there are any heights that can'nt be scaled by a man (includes women) who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me can be summerised in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy- and the greatest of all them is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way implicitly and un-questionably. All our dreams can come true if we have the Courage to persue them".- Walt Disney
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"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self centered;

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;

Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;

Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;

Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;

Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;

Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;

Do good anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is all between you and God;

It was never between you and them anyway".

-Mother Theresa
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"Getting old is the natural onward journey towards death;

Growing old is the journey we take towards fame, prosperity, sharing, knowledge, wisdom, egoless state of mind, peace and bliss".
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"In order to succeed, the most needed behavioral change is primarily Attitudinal. People must challenge themselves before they challenge others. They have to move from effect to cause i.e. instead of saying that you are what you are because of external factors, you need to realize that things happen “because of you”. Life is a magnificent trip from birth to death and during this journey you have the power to get the kind of life you want".

-based from the speech of H H The Dalai Lama
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"It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity."

- Francis Bascon
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"You are what you think;

You are what you go for;

You are what you do".

- Bob Richards
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"A mind once stretched by a new idea,
never regains it original dimension."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."

- Alan Cohen
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"It is your attitude not the aptitude that decides your altitude"
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"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."

Anne Frank
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"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."

Aristotle
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"Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow."

Dorothy Thompson
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"The best index to a person's character is

(a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and

(b) how he treats people who can't fight back."

-Abigail Van Buren

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