Date of birth: September 28, 1907

Birthplace: Lyallpur, Punjab, British India

Date of death: March 23, 1931 (age 24)

Place of death: Lahore, Punjab, British India

Movement: Indian Independence movement

Major organizations: Naujawan Bharat Sabha, Kirti Kissan Party and Hindustan Socialist Republican Association

Religion: Sikhism

“If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody."

“The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity – of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.” – from Bhagat Singh’s prison diary

vpost : 01

Read More...

"Let us re-dedicate ourselves for the health and wealth of our mother INDIA.Hamesa Bolo..... Mera Bharath  "

"Happy Republic day 4 all indians"

On REPUBLIC DayHere's wising our dreams of a new tomorrow come true for us...NOW AND ALWAYS. Happy Republic Day.

Click here for sending more sms snd greetings,

mobiles.maxabout.com

efreesms.com 

vpost : 02

Read More...

“I loved ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’” -Akshay Kumar

    Let the talks of battle of supremacy at the box office be on hold for the time being at least. Even as the large segment of media has gone ahead and filled in pages around Shah Rukh Khan v/s Akshay Kumar, the latter has no qualms in admitting that he found ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ to be an excellent film. He made this statement in the context of family films coming from Bollywood continuing to find an audience globally.

“Such stories will always run. It’s like old wine and all that you have to do is get a new bottle to package it all well. Our sentiments will never go away and this is the reason why when I saw ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’, I really loved it”, says Akshay Kumar in an honest tone.


Read more: http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/i-loved-rab-ne-bana-di-jodi-akshay-kumar_100258577.html#ixzz0TgOReoN2
indianachu : 01

Read More...

It is a very bulky book 900+ pages. I am in the middle of it and what is amazing is the sprinkling of quotations throughout the book by characters. Besides these great quotes there are many reasons why I like this book.

1. The number one reason as mention above is th wonderful collection of quotations which are present throughout.
2. Gregory David Roberts (GDR) is a nice human being and it is felt strongly everywhere.
3. He likes Mumbai and India-anything and everything Indian, which is very strange coming from a westerner.
4. I never knew such an underworld exists in Mumbai with their own rules and players and lives of thousand slum dwellers.
5. His love for Karla is really amazing- so strong yet so fresh.
6. This is a real life story of a bank robber and the positive transformation that took place inspite of so much violence.

The photo below was taken during his visit to Leopold cafe, one of the places where terrorists attacked on that dreadful night of 26.11.08. GDR visited this cafe on December 10th.


Gregory David Roberts (GDR) with his wife at Leopold cafe Mumbai after the terror attack.

56 great quotes from Shantaram.
I am presently reading Shantaram by .


Gregory David Roberts (GDR)

Here are a few quotes from Shantaram . Enjoy reading them.

1.

Whenever I was alone I wrote…, writing was one thing that saved me the discipline, and abstraction of putting my life into words, every day, helped me to cope with shame and its first cousin despair.

2
There is a truth that is deeper than experience. It is beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It is an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. We are helpless, usually, in the face of it; and the cost of knowing it, like the cost of knowing love, is sometimes greater than any heart would willingly pay. It does not always help to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know the truth is to share it, from heart to heart.

3
Suffering of every kind is always a matter of what we have lost. When we were young, we think that suffering is something that is done to us. When we get older – when the steel doors slam shut, in one way or other- we know that real suffering is measured by what is taken away from us.

4
Every act of suffering, no matter how small or how agonizingly great, is a test of love in some way. Most of the time, the suffering is also a test of our love for God.

5

Khaderbhai once said every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret. It was true enough about me. The little good I have done in the world has always dragged behind a shadow of dark inspiration. I know in the long run motive matters more with the good deeds than it does with the bad.

6
When all the guilt and shame for the bad we have done have run their course, it is the good we did that can save us. But then , when salvation speaks, the secrets we kept , and the motives we concealed , creep from their shadows. They cling to us, those dark motives for our good deeds. Redemption’s climb is steepest if the good we did is soiled with secret shame.

7.
We can deny the past, but we cannot escape its torment because the past is a speaking shadow that keeps pace with the truth of what we are, step for step , until we die.

8
That fighting to save a life is better and more enduring reason than fighting to end one.

9
I have developed a style in dealing with them that won their trust quickly. The style was – Two parts showman, two parts flatterer and one part philanderer, combined with a hint of mischief, a sniff of condescension and a pinch of contempt.

10

She said I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.

11

The Red queen contest---I learnt it in the slums. The hosts – our bodies – and the viruses – any bug that makes us sick- are locked in a contest with each other. When the parasite attacks, the host develops a defense. Then the virus changesto beat that defense, so the host gets a new defense. And that keeps on going. They call it a Red Queen Contest. It is from the story Alice in the wonderland.

12
Alice never meets the Red Queen who runs incredibly fast but never seems to get anywhere. She tells Alice , in her country it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place.

13

The word Mafia comes from the Sicilian word for bragging. If you ask any serious man who commits serious crimes for a living, he will tell you it is just that—the boasting, the pride—that gets most of the criminals in the end. But they never learn. May be it is not possible to break law without boasting about it to someone. May be it is not possible to be an outlaw without being proud in someway.

14

It is funny; the heroes come in only three kinds—dead, damaged or dubious.

15

This is what we do. Put one-step forward then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequences to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave heart into the promise of a new day. With love: the passionate search for a truth other than our own. With longing: the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on. God help us. God forgive us. We live on.


16


When you judge the power that a person has, you must judge his capacities as both friend and as enemy

17

It is good to know what is wrong with the world. But it is just as important to know that sometimes, no matter how wrong it is, you cannot change it. And a lot of the bad stuff in the world was not really that bad until some one tried to change it.

18
One of the reasons why we crave love and seek it so desperately is that love is the only thing cure for loneliness, shame and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about you are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.

19

If fate does not make you laugh then you just do not get the joke.

20
People always hurt us with their trust. The surest way to hurt someone you like is to put all your trust in him or her.

21
Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them the more you wish they had never happened.

22
Depression always happens to people who do not know how to be sad.

23
Men reveal what they think when they look away and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it is the other way around.

24
I do not know what frightens me more,
The power that crushes us
Or our endless ability to endure it.

25
To make sure none followed us where you led
I used my hair to cover our tracks.
Sun set on my island of our bed
Night rose
Eating echoes
And we were beached here, in tangles of flicker,
Candles whispering at our driftwood backs.
Your eyes above me
Afraid of the promises I might keep
Regretting the truth we did say
Less than the lie we didn’t,
I went in deep, I went in deep,
To fight the past for you.
Now we both know
Sorrows are the seeds of loving.
Now we both know I will live and
I will die for this love.

26

Indians are the Italians of Asia . It can also be said Italians are Indians of Europe .

There is so much Italian in Indians, and so much Indian in Italians. They are both people of the Madonna – they demand a Goddess, even if the religion does not provide one. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy; and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop corner .For them food is music inside the body and music is food inside the heart. The language of India and the language Italy , they make every man a poet and make something beautiful from every banalite. These are nations where love –amore, pyaar- makes a cavalier of a Borsalino on a street corner, and makes a princess of a peasant girl , if only for the second that her eyes meet yours .

27
For many the duplication of their own images in two or more mirrors at the same time was not the least among of the past time.

28
They say in Marseilles , a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for the past eight years.

29
Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than by what we permit

30

The worst thing about corruption as a system of governance is that it works so well.

31
Friendship is something that gets harder to understand as the years pass. Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes.

32

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like.

33
Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? The frog agrees to to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him.

Then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they both drown, and the scorpion says that he is a scorpion , and it is his nature to sting.

The test of a real Borsalino hat is to roll it into a very tight tube and pass it through a wedding ring. If it emerges from this test without permanent creases, and if it springs back to its original shape, and if it is not damaged in the experience, then it is a genuine Borsalino

34
French culture is so pervasive and influential that almost every one in the whole world is at least a little French. This is specially so for women. Almost every woman in the world is French, in some way.

35
Every city in the world has a village in its heart. You will never understand the city unless you first understand the village

36

Dream is a place where wish and fear meet. When the wish and fear are the same then we call that dream a nightmare.

37

There are many animals that can express their happiness; but only the human animal has the genius to express a magnificent sadness. And for me it is some thing special, a daily meditation. Sadness is my one and only art.

38

No political philosophy I ever heard of loves the human race as much as Anarchism. Every other way of looking at the world says that people have to be controlled and ordered around and governed. Only Anarchism trusts the human being enough to let him work it out for himself.

39

Love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested, and loyalty too. There is no test for Love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because Love is born in the part of us that does not die.

40

Assassin grief, the kind of grief that lies in wait and attacks from ambush, with no warning and no mercy.

41
Justice is judgment that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us. Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong but is also the way we try to save them.

42

The truth is there are no good men or bad men. The deeds have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds and bad deeds. Men are just men- it is what they do or refuse to do that link them to good or evil.

The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of any one- the noblest man alive or the most wicked –has the whole purpose, process, and meaning of life within the lotus folds of its passion. Thee truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy and every particle of matter in the universe is moving.

45
Wherever you go in the world , in any society , it is always the same when it comes to the question of justice; we concentrate our laws , investigations , prosecutions and punishments on how much crime is in sin , rather than how much sin is in the crime.

46
Suffering is the way we test our love, especially the love for God.

47
Every act of suffering, no matter how small or how agonizingly great, is a test of love in some way. Most of the time, the suffering is also a test of our love for God.

48
Pain and suffering are connected but they are not the same. Pain can exist without suffering. It is also possible to suffer without pain.

49
Suffering is exactly like happiness, but perhaps backwards. One is like the mirror image of the other. Each has no meaning or does not exist without the other.

50
We human beings are the most complex arrangement of matter that we know of , but we are not the last achievement of the universe . We, too, will develop and change with the rest of the universe. But if we kill indiscriminately, we will not get there. We will wipe out our species, and all the development that has led to us across millions of years- billions of years-will be lost. The same can be said for stealing. What would happen if every one stole every other one? Would that help?

51
Bertrand Russell once said that, “Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.” I do agree with him.

52

The word “Characteristic” in English has an amazing sound- like the rapping on the drum or breaking kindling wood for fire.

Every atom in the universe has the characteristic of life. The more complex way the atoms are put together, the more complex is the expression of characteristic of life. A rock is a very simple arrangement of atoms, so the life in a rock is so simple that we cannot see it. A cat is a more complex arrangement of atoms, so the life in a cat is more obvious. But life is there in everything even in a rock and even when we cannot see it.

53

This is a test. Every Guru, every wise man you meet must answer these two questions for you:

What is an objective, universally acceptable definition of good and evil?
What is the relationship between consciousness and matter?

54
Sometimes it is necessary to do a wrong thing for a right reason. The important thing is to be sure that our reasons are right, and we admit the wrong-- that we do not lie to ourselves, and convince ourselves that we did was right.

55



Universe is a process of struggle between opposites- light and darkness , hot and cold , suffering pleasure , good and evil – and that nothing can exist without the existence of its opposite.

Suffering is a condition of the unenlightened soul, locked within the wheel of karma.

56

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid ones and a hundred million cowards.

=======
Visit again, I will post more quotes here.

Read More...

When I am down, depressed I search for great quotes for getting inspiration.
Here is a list I compiled today. Read and get inspired!!!


1. You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. - Robert Collier

2. Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. - Michael Landon

3. Rarely is anything a matter of being able to do it, yet more often than not it’s a matter of just doing it. - Miles Baker

4. “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt” - Bertrand Russell

5. Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. — Donald Trump

6. “success Is 90% Starting And 10% Not Stopping” - a.d. Kessler

7. “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it” - Goethe

8. “Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never!” - Winston Churchill

9. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far they can really go.” - T.S. Eliot

10. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? - Mary Oliver

11. "This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given thisday to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good.What you do today is important because you are exchanging a dayof your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be goneforever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good." -- Author Unknown

12. If you want a place in the sun, you have to put up with a few blisters.” Abigail Van Buren

13. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."Martin Lurther King Jr.

14. If you think you can or you think you can't either way you are right.-Henry Ford

15. Success is something you attract by the person you become.-by Jim Rohn

16. The best way to predict the future is to create it.-by Peter F. Drucker

17. If you can dream it, you can do it.-by Walt Disney.

18. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve-by Napoleon Hill

19. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.-Nelson Mandela

20. Believe in Yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.-by Cynthia Kersey

21. It is never too late to be who you might have been-by George Elliot

22. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.- Walt Emerson

23. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.- Brian Tracy

24. All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.- Walt Disney

25. "Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude toward us."Earl Nightingale

26. Time can't be managed. I merely manage activities. Each night, I write down on a sheet of paper a list of the things I have to accomplish the next day. And when I wake up ... I do them.-by Earl Nightingale

27. "Be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi

28. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.-by Henry Ford

29. The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.- Booker T Washington

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

31. "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."- Jim Rohn

32. We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.Herman Melville

33. Yesterday does not equal tomorrow. Forget the past and move towards your goals.- Tony Robbins

34. "There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."by Denis Waitley

35. You will be amazed at how much free time you actually have when you never have to think about or worry about money. Bob Proctor

36. "Tough Times Never Last, Tough People Do"Robert Schuller

37. Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.Lance Armstrong

Read many more great quotes here
http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=143163&whichpage=1
___________________________________
Make Indmusings your reading habit

Read More...

1.Give me blood and I shall give you freedom!

2.No real change in history has ever been acheived by discussions.

3.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 three ideals in the innermost core of your hearts
speech at a military review of the Indian National Army, July 5, 1943

4.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.

5.Indian nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam (the true), shivam (the god), sundaram (the beautiful). Nationalism in India has... roused the creative faculties which for centuries had been lying dormant in our people.

6.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.
February 1938

7.Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have got them in generous measure. Now I demand more of you. Men, money and materials cannot by themselves bring victory or freedom. We must have the motive- power that will inspire us to brave deeds and heroic exploits.

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 to preserve with our own strength.

___________________________________
Make Indmusings your reading habit

Read More...

1. A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

Ramakrishna

2. Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.

3. Ramakrishna Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

4. Ramakrishna God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

5. Ramakrishna God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

6. Ramakrishna God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

7. Ramakrishna If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

8. Ramakrishna If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

9. Ramakrishna If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

10.Ramakrishna If you want to go east, don't go west.

11.Ramakrishna It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

12.Ramakrishna Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

13.Ramakrishna Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

14.Ramakrishna Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

15.Ramakrishna More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

16.Ramakrishna One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

17.Ramakrishna Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

18.Ramakrishna The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

19.Ramakrishna The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

20.Ramakrishna The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

21.Ramakrishna Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

22.Ramakrishna Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

23.Ramakrishna To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

24.Ramakrishna Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

25.Ramakrishna Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

26.Ramakrishna Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

27.Ramakrishna When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

28.Ramakrishna When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

29.Ramakrishna When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

___________________________________
Make Indmusings your reading habit

Read More...

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Age considers; youth ventures.
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Those who own much have much to fear.
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
We live in the world when we love it.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Read More...

1. People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
2. Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
3. Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
4. Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
5. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
6. Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
7. I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
8. In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
9. It's not having been in the dark house, but having left it that counts.
10. Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
11. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
12. The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
13. Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
14. Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
15. The American people abhor a vacuum.
16. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
17. We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.


Related searches:
walk softly but carry a big stick, talk softly but carry a big stick, speak softly and carry a big stick, talk softly and carry a big stick, teddy roosevelt

Read More...