Great Quotes

“The greatest blessings come by way of madness, indeed of madness that is heaven-sent.”

Socrates

“Wit is educated insolence.”

Aristotle

“Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.”

Epicurus

“Who is content needs fear no shame. Who knows to stop incurs no blame.”

Lao Tzu

“There is no guilt greater than to sanction ambition; no calamity greater than to be discontented with one's lot.”

Lao Tzu

“There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.”

Lao Tzu

“The superior man wishes to be slow in his speech and earnest in his conduct.”

Confucius

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”

Sun Tzu

“Though great they be who fast and suffer pain, greater are they who bear with others' words of disdain.”

Thiruvalluvar

“Who, meeting trouble upon trouble, still bears up unmoved, him trouble itself will trouble.”

Thiruvalluvar

“When troubles come, laugh; there is nothing like it to meet and vanquish them.”

Thiruvalluvar

“Though sorrow like a flood come on, the wise man's mind thinks, and it is gone.”

Thiruvalluvar

“To punish wrong, with kindly benefits the doers ply; thus shame their souls, but pass the ill unnoticed by.”

Thiruvalluvar

“Like reading of books, the friendship of the noble grows sweeter the more it is cultivated.”

Thiruvalluvar

“Not for laughter only friendship all the bonds unites; but for counsel, when the friend strays from the right.”

Thiruvalluvar

“As hand of him whose garment slips, so friendship rushes to relieve distress.”

Thiruvalluvar

“To those who cannot smile, the wide world is darkness even at noon.”

Thiruvalluvar

“The ploughmen are the linchpin of the world; they bear up all who other works perform.”

Thiruvalluvar

“Who ploughing eat their food, they truly live; the rest to others bend subservient, eating what they give.”

Thiruvalluvar

“What we have learned is a handful of sand; what we have not learned is the size of the world.”

Avvaiyar

“Every place is my home, and everyone is my kin.”

Kaniyan Pungundranar

“Work is worship.”

Basavanna

“Tasks are accomplished by effort, not by mere wishes; deer do not walk into the mouth of a sleeping lion.”

Ancient Sanskrit Verse

“Excess in everything should be avoided.”

Ancient Sanskrit Saying

“Do not be too upright in your dealings; go to the forest and see that the straight trees are cut down while the crooked ones are left standing.”

Chanakya