Quotations

POLITICAL LEADERS -
"Modern civilisation seems to be incapable of producing people endowed with imagination, intelligence, and courage. In practically every country there is a decrease in the intellectual and moral caliber of those who carry the responsibility of public affairs. The financial, industrial, and commercial organisations, have reached a gigantic size. They are influenced not only by the conditions of the country where they are established, but also by the state of the neighbouring countries and of the entire world. In all nations, economic and social conditions undergo extremely rapid changes. Nearly everywhere the existing form of government is again under discussion. The great democracies find themselves face to face with formidable problems-problems concerning their very existence and demanding an immediate solution. And we realise that, despite the immense hopes which humanity has placed in modern civilisation, such a civilisation has failed in developing men of sufficient intelligence and audacity to guide it along the dangerous road on which it is stumbling. Human beings have not grown so rapidly as the institutions sprung from their brains. It is chiefly the intellectual and moral deficiencies of the political-leaders, and their ignorance, which endanger modern nations."

Note :- Extract from the book "MAN, THE UNKNOWN" By
DR. ALEXIS CARREL, (Nobel Laureate) page No.33.

Decision Action :

1. We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
… … … H. W. Longfellow

2. It is too late to look for instruments when the work calls for execution.
… … … Samuel Johnson

3. Action is eloquence.
… … … Shakespeare : Cariolanus

4. He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
… … … G. B. Shaw

5. In a minute there is time, For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
… … … T.S.Eliot : The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

6. Decision-making is not a matter of time or money, it is a matter of values.
… … … Todd Duncan

Change :

1. The world hates changes, yet is is the only thing that has brought progress.
… … … Charles Kettering

2. O God, give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed, courage to change what should be changed, courage to change what should be changed, and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
… … … Reinhold Niebuhr

3. An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.
… … … William James.

Debt-Economy :

1. Pay what you owe, and you'll know what is your own.
… … … Benjamin Franklin

2. There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing or debt.
… … … Henrik Ibsen

3. Economy is the distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection.
… … … Edmund Burke

4. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume without producing it.
… … … G. B. Shaw

5. Economy is the art of making the most of life. The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
… … … G. B. Shaw

6. Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
… … … Oscar Wilde

7. Wealth is a power usurped by the few, to compel the many to labor for their benefit.
… … … Shelley

Religion :

1. We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
… … … Jonathan Swift.

2. What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.
… … … Somerset Maugham.

3. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
… … … Pascal

Life :

1. Use, do not absue; neither abstinence nor excess renders man happy.
… … … Voltaire

2. Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quiet.
… … … Oscar Wilde.

3. Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the lifeblood of real civilization.
… … … G. M. Trevelyan

4. To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
… … … Bertrand Russel

5. I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I know)
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who
… … … Bertrand Russel

6. Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
… … … Victor Hugo.

Vision of Life :

1. Each one of us one day will be judged by our standard of life
Not by our standard of living..
By our measure of giving..
Not by our measure of wealth..
By our simple goodness..
Not seeming greatness'