Best Quotes of All Time

 Best Quotations

1. “To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. Socrates

2. “Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.” Plato

3. .“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.” Peter Drucker

4. “Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.” William Shakespeare

5. “The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”David Bohm

6. “Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

7. “In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

8. “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is a success.”

9. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill

10. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller

11. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” Helen Keller

12. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” Helen Keller

13. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul is strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” Helen Keller

14. “Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” Helen Keller

15. “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller

16. “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” Helen Keller

17. “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched; they must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller

18. “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” Helen Keller

19. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” Albert Einstein

20. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Albert Einstein

21. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” Albert Einstein

22. “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” Stephen Hawking

23. “We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.” Stephen Hawking

24. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” Stephen Hawking

25. “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” Nathaniel Hawthorne

26. “A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. “Nathaniel Hawthorne

27. “Words - as innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.” Nathaniel Hawthorne

28. Green is the prime colour of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. Pedro Calderon de la Barca

29. Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Hans Christian Andersen

30. Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. E. O. Wilson

31. Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. John Lubbock

32. Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. Gerard De Nerval 

33. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. Maxwell

34. The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. Ray Kroc

35. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. Warren Bennis

36. Where is no vision, there is no hope. Carver

37. True leadership is practised not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. Geneen

38. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a moulder of consensus. King Martin Luther

39. In all things of nature, there is something marvellous. Aristotle

40. Nature always wears the colours of the spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
    The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. Theodore Roethke

41. It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. Albert Einstein

42. A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. Edward Teller

43. Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. George Bernard Shaw

44. The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. Arnold H. Glasow

45. Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. Rene Descartes

46. Science is the systematic classification of experience. George Henry Lewes

47. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King, Jr.

48. Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life. Nathan Deal

49. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Albert Schweitzer

50. Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practised every day. Jim Rohn

51. Action is the foundational key to all success. Pablo Picasso

52. Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the of another. Napoleon Hill

53. If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. Henry Ford

54. Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart simile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. Yogananda

55. Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential. Churchill

56. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Emerson.

57. A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. Max Muller

58. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Visott

59. Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia

60. Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde

61. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving you happier. Mother Teresa

62. Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. Jackson Brown

63. Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness. William E. Gladstone

64. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahtma Gandhi

65. Men have become the tools of their tools. Tem Berner-Lee

66. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. Alvin Toffler

67. Technology is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with on hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. Carrie Snow

68. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. Bill gates

69. Communication leads to community, that, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. Rollo May 

70. Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have that gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people. Jim Rohn

71. The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. Max Lerner

72. No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and on one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Buddha

73. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint Augustine

74. Pray as though everything depended on god. Work as though everything depended on you. Saint Augustine

75. The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. Richard Bach

76. Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein

77. What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination. Jean-Francois 

78. My brain has no heart. My heart has no brain. That’s why when I speak my mind I seem heartless and when I do what’s in my heart I seem thoughtless.

79. Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons: we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

80. Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power.

81. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn’t help us know what to say. Jonathan Sacks

82. Honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. Dennis Prager

83. The fragrance of flowers spread only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions. Chanakya

84. There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. Shakespeare

85. Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. Tagore

86. Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of lifeless facts. Henry Adams

87. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. Adam Smith

88. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is a success. Henry Ford

89. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Vince Lombardi

90. However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Stephen Hawking

91. Goodness is about character, integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage and the like more than anything else, it is all about how we treat.”

92. Whatever you are be a good one

93. In the end, it is not the years in your life that count. It is life in your years.

94. Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all with yourself.

95. An ideal student learns the value of hard work by working hard.

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

97. The purpose of our life is to be happy.

98. The good life is one inspired by love, the second guided by knowledge.

99. One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

100. Unity is strength when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

Complied by Prof. Muhammad Masood Sadiq

101. A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to preserve and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

102. There is only one happiness to love and be loved

103. Patriotism is not shown in words m it is shown in one’s actions, services and scarifies for one’s country.

104. True hardships bring satisfaction, appreciation and contentment for everyone.

105. Hardships ore equipped with intelligence and our potential.

106. True pleasure of college life is an amalgamation of curricular and co-curricular activates with true spirit.

107. Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance.

108. It is not you look at that matters it is that you see. We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care what you think , words are secondary, thought s live, they live for.

109. Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle

110. Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. Geroge S. Patton

111. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Mark Twain

112. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential. These are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Confucius

113. It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

114. There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. Aldous Huxley

115. Action may not always bring happiness there is no happiness without action.

116. Life is not a problem to solve but a reality to experience.

117. We don’t remember days, we remember moments

118. Life is a dream for the wise, a game for a fool, a comedy for the rich, and a tragedy for the poor.

119. Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both and you won’t hunt for happiness.

120. “Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, and a comedy for the rich, and a tragedy for the poor”. Shalom Aleichem.

121. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced”. Soren Kierkegaard

122. “Handsome is that handsome does” Fielding

123. Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Till your good is better and your better is best. St Jerome

124. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Arthur Ashe

125. Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. Roosevelt

126. Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your won powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale

79. “Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man may go together” John Ruskin

127. “Beauty in the eye of the beholder”

Margaret Hungerford

128. “Excellence of the material body consists in colour, loveliness of form, strength and destiny”

Pantanjali

129. “There is no excellent beauty that has not some strangeness in the proportion”

Francis Bacon

130. What is beautiful is good and who is good will soon also be beautiful”

Sapha

131. “The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so.”

Sir Arthur Quiller Qouch

132. “A good book is the best of a friend, he is the same today and forever.”

Martin Tupper

133. “A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.” John Milton

134. “It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.”

Leigh Hunt

135. “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”

Francis Bacon

136. “One rare, strange virtue is speeches, and the secret of the matter is, that they are short.”

137. “A good laugh is sunshine in a house.”  Philander Johnson

138.  “A man’s character is the reality of himself. His reputation is the opinion others have formed of him.” Beecher

139. “Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.” Goethe

140.  “Conscience is God’s presence in man.” Swedenborg

141. “The Confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.” La Roche Foucauld

142. “Science is one great art of conversation” Hazlitt

143. “A man of courage is also full of faith.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

144. “Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight, and lead on to further intimacy and friendship.” Montaigne

145. “Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated.” 

Joseph Hall

98. “Happiness is the only good, reason the only teaching, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.”

R. S. Ingersoll

99. “O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes!” 

Shakespeare

100. “Colour speaks all languages.”

Addison

101. “Better know nothing than half know many things”

Nietzsche

102. “Desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.” Laurence Sterne

Best Instructions……

“Strive for Perfection, but settle for Excellence.”

“For peace of mind, make decisions in concert with your Values.”

Don’t judge what you don’t understand.”

“Don’t judge people by their Relatives.”

“Remember that everyone you meet is Afraid of something, Loves something, and has lost something.”

“Talk slow but think Quick.”

“Don’t admire people for their wealth but for the Creative and Generous Ways they put it to Use.”

“When you lose, don’t lose the Lesson.”

“Remember the three Rs: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.” &

“Remember: Actions speak louder than Words.”

For My Hardworking Students:

 “Love never ends when it bears forth Mutual respect and Communal Interest!” Masood Sadiq

“Life offers prosperity if one is ready to improve one’s ways and attitude”

Masood Sadiq

“Hard work and perseverance is a key to Success!” Masood Sadiq

Joyous moments of life are true companions in times of gloom.

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