Quotable Quotes Part II

[Visalakshi Ramani]

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

It could have been 100% perspiration

but we need that 1% inspiration

to know which way to proceed!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty and persistence


Colin Powell (1937-

​

Persistence with an insight +

perspiration with a purpose +

perfection in everything we do = sucsess.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Margaret Thatcher (1925- )

If there can be only one position in the top :first:

it is still great to be in the second top position! :second:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.

Michelangelo (1475-1564)

Nothing has been ever achieved without burning the midnight oil!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Persistent churning produces the butter.

Keep churning until the butter emerges.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Persistent churning produces the butter.

Keep churning until the butter emerges

and keep your finger crossed and pray that

enterprising and determined people

do not approach the pot with sticks!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Pleasure

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a
good action by stealth and to have it
found out by accident.
Charles Lamb.

Pleasure is nothing but
the intermission of pain.

John Shelden.

 

[nannilam_balasubramanian]

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

General one and unknown


Balasubramanian
Ambattur

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Experience is the one and only teacher who fails

whenever her students refuse to learn anything.

 

[renuka]

Hey..since when Experience became a female?

 

[renuka]

Originally Posted by vgane
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

No wonder he dealt with electricity...he needed to make sure the fan worked well to dry up the 99% perspiration!

 

[manoharkumar]

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. ~Albert Einstein

 

[manoharkumar]

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

[manoharkumar]

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others
than you can by what others say about him.~Leo Aikma

 

[vgane]

Adversity causes Some men to break, the Others, to break Records

William Arthur Ward

 

[vgane]

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln​

 

[nannilam_balasubramanian]

A tiny dot could stop a long sentence, whilst a couple and more dots can ensure continuity.

Amazing but true every Ending can be a new Beginning .. Baba.

Balasubramanian
Ambattur

 

[vgane]

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are

Arthur Golden
(1956- )
​

 

[vgane]

I love those who can smile in trouble...

Leonardo da Vinci
(1452-1519)

 

[vgane]

“Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”

William Shakespeare ( - 1616), in As You Like It

 

[kk4646]

Some Funny Quotes..By ..Whoelse..except....!!


1.A Friend Is A 'HELPER' : If He Pays Your Hotel Bill



2. A Friend Is A 'TALKATIVE' : If He Points Out Your Mistakes...


3. A friend Is A 'MISGUIDE' : If You Listen To Him...


4. A Friend Is A 'NUT' : If He Discuss His Love Affair...with you..


5. A Friend Is An 'INTELLIGENT' : If He Is Able To Get Back The Loan Given To You...


6. A Friend Is A 'HONEST' : If He Returns The Loan Taken By Him...


7. A Friend Is A 'FOOL' : If He Believes You Will Return The Loan Taken By You as Promised...


8. A Friend Is An 'ENEMY' : If He Disagrees With You...


9. A FRIEND IS A "MISCHIEF" : IF HE SURPRISES YOU...





P.S. I Don't Have Gender Discrimination.


TVK

 

[nannilam_balasubramanian]

Swami Vivekananda has said that "Never think there is anything impossible for the soul"


Balasubramanian
Ambattur

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[/QUOTE

The gap between knowledge and its application = The slip betwixt the cup and the lip.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. ~Albert Einstein

Parallel saying...
You can't make a child good by making it happy.
You can make a child happy by making it good.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others
than you can by what others say about him.~Leo Aikma

Yes! I have watched and wondered when
one genius calls another person a genius,
a good man calls another man good,
and a bully brands the others a bullies!
We always see in others what we have in us!