Famous Quotes by Famous People

Subhas Chandra Bose  (23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945) was an Indian nationalist whose attempt during World War II to rid India of British rule with the help of Nazi Germany and Japan left a troubled legacy.The honorific Netaji, first applied to Bose in Germany, by the Indian soldiers of the Indische Legion and by the German and Indian officials in the Special Bureau for India in Berlin, in early 1942, was by 1990 used widely throughout India. 1. “ Give me blood and I will give you freedom!” 2.  “Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth.We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not , know the Absolute Truth.” 3.  “Freedom is not given, it is taken.” 4.  “One individual may die for an idea; but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. That is how the wheel of evolution moves on and the ideas and dreams...

Guru Gobind Singh :Gobind Rai: ( 22 December 1666 – 7 October 1708 )was the last of the 10 Sikh Gurus. He was a spiritual master, warrior, poet and philosopher. He succeeded his father Guru Tegh Bahadur as the leader of Sikhs at the young age of nine. Through the guidance of the Creator[citation needed], he contributed much to Sikhism; notable was his contribution to the continual formalisation of the faith which the first Guru Guru Nanak had founded, as a religion, in the 15th century; and his promotion of the covering of one's hair with a turban.Guru Gobind Singh, the last of the living Sikh Gurus, initiated the Sikh Khalsa in 1699,passing the Guruship of the Sikhs to the Eleventh and Eternal Sikh Guru, the Guru Granth Sahib Ji. 1.“He alone is a man who keeps his word: Not that he has one thing in the heart, and another on the tongue.” 2. “If you are strong, torture not the weak, And thus lay not the axe to thy empire.” 3. “When there is incest, adultery, atheism...

Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was a Roman Catholic religious sister and missionary,who lived most of her life in India. She was born in today's Macedonia, with her family being of Albanian descent originating in Kosovo. Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, which in 2012 consisted of over 4,500 sisters and is active in 133 countries. They run hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; dispensaries and mobile clinics; children's and family counselling programmes; orphanages; and schools. Members must adhere to the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience as well as a fourth vow, to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor 1. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of  love. 2. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier 3.We need to find God, and he cannot be f...

Rabindranath Tagore(7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941),was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse",he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal.He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there. In his mature years, in addition to his many-sided  literary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased his interest in social reforms. 1. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. ...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885),the latter often called "The Great American Novel". Twain began to gain fame when his story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County" appeared in the New York Saturday Press on November 18, 1865. Twain's first book, "The Innocents Abroad," was published in 1869, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in 1876, and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in 1885. He wrote 28 books and numerous short stories, letters and sketches. 1) The secret of getting ahead is getting started. 2) If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. 3) Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. 4) Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life....

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.  1. here there is love there is life. 2. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. 3. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. 4. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. 5. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. 6. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. 7. Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. 8. Live as if you were to die  tomorrow . Learn as if you were to live forever. 9. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocea...

Swami Vivekananda ( 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), was an Indian Hindu monk and chief disciple of the 19th-century saint Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century.He was a major force in the revival of Hinduism in India, and contributed to the concept of nationalism in colonial India.Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission.He is perhaps best known for his speech which began, "Sisters and brothers of America, in which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893. 1. Three  GOLDEN RULES Swami Vivekananda:---  Who is Helping You, Don’t Forget them. Who is Loving you, Don’t Hate them . Who is Believing you, Don’t Cheat them. 2. Anything that makes you weak physically, intelle...