Golden Words

to the World of Wisdom

  A Quote is like a Coat, follow it or wear it, it will protect you!

Here is at least one quote; must for you...

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Great people said...e

• It doesn't matter how marry resources you have; if you don't know how to use them, they will never be enough.

• Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world; today I'm wise, so I'm changing myself.

• Every man sees his second mother in his wife but every woman sees her first child in her husband.

• Never make a decision when you are angry and never make a promise when you are happy.

• You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

• If you born poor, it's not your mistake but if you die poor, it's your mistake.

• Problems are like washing machines. They twist us, spin us and knock us around. But we come out
  cleaner, brighter & better than before.

• Its very easy to say "busy" when someone needs you. But its very painful to hear "busy" when you
  need someone.

• Accept your past without regrets, handle your present with conference, and face your future
  without fear.

  Endless Realities   Take them seriously...

• When you know better, you do better.

• Write your sad times in "sand", write your good times in "stone".

• I hear, and I forget; I see, and I remember; I do, and I understand.

• Someone may mean the world to you but to someone you may be the world.

• It's better to lose your Ego to the one you Love, than to lose the one you Love because of Ego.

• Love your job but don't love your company because you may not know when your company stops loving you.

• It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, and a life time to forget them.

• You are not responsible for what people think about you. But you are responsible for what you give them to think about you.

• What is the secret of Success...? "Right Decisions". How do you make Right Decisions...? "Experience". How do you get Experience...? "Wrong Decisions".

• Don't make promise when you are in Joy . Don't reply when you are Sad. Don't take decisions when you are Angry. Think twice, Act wise.

• A paper fly in the air due to its luck but a bird fly due to its efforts. If your luck is not with you, efforts are always there to support you.

Looking Back Teaches you Lessons:
How clear is your memory of very difficult times in your life? Bad memories are often locked away in our mind. We often try to fill in the gaps in our ability to recall details of our lives.

A Powerful Motivator: The Fear of Regret:
We’ve all done things in our lives that we have regretted. Sometimes it is an action we have taken, or something we have said. Other times it is our lack of taking an action. That action would have made all the difference in our lives. We suffer the consequences.

Asking for Help is not a Sign of Weakness:
We all need help every now and then. Financial, spiritual, physical and emotional help that comes from others to get us through difficult times in our lives.

Discipline: A Key to Achieving your Goals
In order to discipline yourself, select the time that you will start and stop the task. Consider this an appointment. Allow no: interruptions that would side track you. As you get involved with the project, and the time that you have set aside is ending, decide if it is best to extend the time, or stop working on the project.

Life is like a roller coaster:
There are hills to climb and hills to coast. Your image of your life is critically important to your success. We are in control of many of the circumstances around us, but there are other circumstances beyond our control.

Serious illness:
Serious illness is more than a crisis of the body, it is a crisis of the soul. Many patients react to a serious disease by becoming paralyzed by fear. Resistance quickly crumbles, and is followed by depression and despair. Yet others marshal the inner resources needed to overcome the crisis.

True meaning of patience:
Patience is acceptance. Patience is an expression of deep understanding.

It's better to be safe than sorry.
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Hate keeps a man alive and it gives him strength.
 Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. (Henry Ford)

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. (Oscar Wilde)
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
 

 A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

  Repetition is the key weapon against forgetting.
 Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
 Judge your natural character by what you do in dreams.
 When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
 It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

 It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
 We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced.

 An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for his country.
 Buying on the installment plan makes the months shorter and the years longer.
  An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

  Never tell your problems to anyone... 20% don't care and the other 80% will glad you have them.
 

• Where there is no way... peace is the way.

• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

• Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

• Your attempt may fail, but never fail to make an attempt.

• If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

• Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

• You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

• Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

• The cost of education is nothing, compared to the price of ignorance.

• Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

• When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

• The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

• Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

• A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

• One of the most effective ways to improve is to learn from other people’s mistakes.

• Do not fear to be strange in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once strange.

• It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

• Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

• The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. (Voltaire)

• Civilization is a method of living, and an attitude of equal respect for all men. (Jane Addams)

• All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

• Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. (Bertrand Russell)

• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

• If a person deceives you once; shame on him/her, if he/she deceives you again; shame on "you".

• Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

• Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

• One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

• The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

• If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

• If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

• The greater wisdom comes with age. The lessons in life serve as a stronghold in making good decisions and sound judgment.

• Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

• When Allah takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.

  Words of Wisdom... 

  Five Bouncing Balls 

Speech by Bryan Dyson (CEO of Coca Cola)

'Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them - work, family, health, Friends and spirit and you're keeping all of these in the Air.

You will soon or one day understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.

But the other four Balls - Family, Health, Friends and Spirit - are made of glass. If you drop one of these; they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for Balance in your life.'

• The best way to kill time is to waste it.

• Self-trust is the first secret of success.

• Work is the only weapon to kill the time.

• Killing for peace is like fucking for virginity.

• Time is the longest distance between two places.

• The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

• Sounds carry your emotions and spirits to the world.

• Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.

• You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

• Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

• Love of money is not the root of all evils but lack of money is.

• Artificial Intelligence stands no chance against Natural Stupidity.

• The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

• Beware of the little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

• When we have not what we love, then we must love what we have.

• Never succumb to jealousy – This is “sudden death” for a relationship.

• The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.

• Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

• Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep peddling, you'll fall.

• Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

• Buying on the installment plan makes the months shorter and the years longer.

• The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. (Mark Twain)

• Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

• Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

• We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

• The best teachers are the ones who remain open to the new ideas their students have to impart.

• We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. (Will Rogers)

• Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad that you have them.

• A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair, and takes it away from you when it rains.

• All the faces in the world are mirrors. What you see in the faces of other people is the exact reflection of your own.

• Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

• Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

• Never spend money before you have earned it.

• Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.

• People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

• It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

• You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

• Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.

• Getting emotional for small issues doesn't solve the problem.

• Society is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

• Peace is a friendly game. The one who puts out his hand first wins.

• We Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. (Gandhi)

• A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. (John F. Kennedy)

• An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

• Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

• Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.

• We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. (Winston Churchill)

• We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. (Helen Keller)

• A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

• One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

• Destiny decides who you meet in life but its only your heart that can decide who gets to stay in your life.

• The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. (Winston Churchill)

• Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. (Bertrand Russell)

• Chances favor only the prepared minds.

• Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.

• There is no way of judging of the future but by the past.

• Handy tips are not always so important, but you can learn something new.

• What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

• Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

• Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

• Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

• There is only one lamp by which your feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

• Try your best not to get frustrated, remember there's always more than one solution to a problem.

• There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live.

• Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

• It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures.

• We get very little wisdom from success. Wise people are wise because they've come to wisdom through failure.

• A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. (Bernard Shaw)

• There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. (Pablo Picasso)

• Happiness keeps you Sweet, Trials keeps you Strong, Sorrow keeps you Human, Failure keeps you Humble, Success keeps you Glowing, But only God keeps you going.

• It is more blessed to give than to receive.

• Education is the chief defense of a nation.

• Education is the art of making man ethical.

• He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

• Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

• Behind an able man there are always other able men.

• Money attracts money, luck attracts luck and love attracts love.

• One can give advice, but cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

• There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

• He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

• Motivation is the single most important factor in any sort of success.

• The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

• Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

• There are three faithful friends -- an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

• When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. (Abraham Lincoln)

• Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.

• When you educate a man you educate an individual when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.

• Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

• An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

• As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

• An educational system isn't worth if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.

• Cleverness is not wisdom.

• Doubt can only be removed by action.

• Competition is the whetstone of talent.

• The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

• Jealousy arises from a lack of confidence.

• A wise man always admits his weaknesses.

• Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

• Status symbols are medals you buy yourself.

• Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

• Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

• True courage is like a kite a contrary wind raises it higher.

• Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

• Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

• Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.

• I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes -- until I met a man who had no feet.

• Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination. and a little dough.

• Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

• Great men are they who see that spiritual force is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

• As you grow older, you'll discover that you have two hands: One for helping yourself, the second for helping others.

• The quieter you become the more you can hear.

• Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

• Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most.

• A rich person is not one who has the most, but is one who needs the least.

• There is nothing so strong or safe, in any emergency of life, as simple truth.

• Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. (Charlie Chaplin)

• Science has promised us truth but it has never promised us either peace or happiness.

• Merit begets confidence, confidence begets enthusiasm, enthusiasm conquers the world.

• People lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health.

• The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

• If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

• Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get. (Garfield)

• The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. (Lloyd Jones)

• The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

• The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can’t go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

• The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between the knees and the floor...the one who kneels to the Lord can stand up to anything.

• The best thing to give to your enemy is, forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your ear; to your child, good example; to your father, reverence; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect.

• A closed mouth catches no flies. (Italian Proverb)

• No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

• A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. (Arab Proverb)

• A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. (Persian Proverb)

• Learning is like rowing upstream, if you stop, you go backwards!

• Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. (Khalil Gibran)

• A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. (German Proverb)

• If a man does not know where he is going, no light is bright enough to guide him.

• We are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded with a sleep!

• Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

• Our only purpose in life is to love one another...and, if we can't do that, try not to hurt each other.

• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

• Good judgment comes from experience; and experience, .....well, that comes from bad judgment.

• Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

• One of the frightening realities of business is that in order to make money, you often have to spend it first.

• The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. (Helen Keller)

• There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

• Love is a white stick (blind's stick) which help a blind to walk around. And "marriage" is a mechanism which enable this stick to fold and unfold. (ajmalbeig)

• The only path to success is the path you lay for yourself.

• Success is something you have got to create for yourself.

• If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. (Kurt Lewis)

• Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. (Woody Allen)

• Between two evils, always pick the one you never tried before. (Mae West)

• Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. (Gen. George Patton)

• The more choice a person is offered, the more difficult it is to make a decision.

• Whoever says that money can't buy you happiness, doesn't know where to buy.

• The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift itself. (Pierre Corneille)

• A true friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. (Elbert Hubbard)

• The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep. (Joseph Cossman)

• You never learn anything talking, you only learn things when you ask questions. (Lou Holtz)

• Knowledge is gained by learning, trust by doubt, skill by practice; and love by love. (Thomas Szasz)

• Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do. (Helen Keller)

• A man's greatest strength develops at the point where he overcomes his greatest weakness. (Letterman)

• Nobody else is interested in your financial future. The only person that genuinely wants you to succeed is you!

• Success requires work and commitment; knowing what to do, when to do and how to do. There are no short-cuts to success.

• If you are sitting on your hands waiting for someone else to offer you the opportunity to earn a reliable, full-time income, then you will just stay sitting.

• He that's secure is not safe. (Benjamin Franklin)

• Unity, Faith, Discipline. (Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah)

• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. (Anais Nin)

• Magnificent promises are always to be suspected. (Theodore Parker)

• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. (Will Durant)

• Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. (Albert Einstein)

• Wealth is something you acquire so you can share it, not keep it. (LaDonna Harris)

• I wear my wife's eyeglasses because she wants me to see things her way. (Jayson Feinburg)

• If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears. (Isaac Hayes)

• The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. (Albert Einstein)

• There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. (Ansel Adams)

• A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee. (Arnold H. Glassgow)

• Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted. (Albert Einstein)

• The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. (Gandhi)

• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot  read them. (Mark Twain)

• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

• If you know, to recognize that you know, if you don't know, to realize that you don't know: That is knowledge. (Confucius)

• A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. (Muhammad Ali-Boxer)

• Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." (Albert Einstein)

• Love is a hole in the heart. (Ben Hecht)

• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. (Alexander Pope)

• All things are difficult before they are easy. (Thomas Fuller)

• Always do what you are afraid to do. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

• Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. (Alex Hamilton)

• Silence is one of the hardest arguments to prove. (Josh Billings)

• Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. (Bette Davis)

• Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. (Henry Ford)

• In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. (Benjamin Franklin)

• The stories that you tell about your past shape your future. (Eric Ransdell)

• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. (Confucius)

• A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished. (Zsa Zsa Gabo)

• You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. (Galileo)

• Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward. (Soren Kierkegaard)

• Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. (Mahatma Gandhi)

• There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. (Tennessee Williams)

• One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. ( Galbraith)

• We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. (Epictetus)

• The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

• We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

• I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. (Kahlil Gibran)

 Principles of Chankya - Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC -275 BC

• A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

• As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

• Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

• God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

• The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

• A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

• There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

• Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

• The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

• Whore s don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits.

• Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

• Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

• Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

• Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions; Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

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Compiled by: Muhammad Ajmal Beig Naz

 Life is not a race. Do take it slower; hear the music, before the song is over.