Famous Quotes by Famous People

TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More Teamwork is "work done by several associates with each doing a part but all subordinating personal prominence to the efficiency of the whole". Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. ― Henry Ford Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ― Helen Keller Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. ― Michael Jordan Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result. ― Ifeanyi Enoch If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time,both are useless. ― Darryl F. Zanuck None of us is as smart as all of us. ― Ken Blanchard Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?― R. Meredith Belbin Teams share the burden and divide the grief. ― Doug Smith No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. ― H.E. Luccock The best ...

María Eva Duarte de Perón (7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952) was the second wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (1895–1974) and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is usually referred to as Eva Perón (Spanish language -- Evita.) I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with. My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten. Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.     I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.     I am my own woman.     I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.     When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.     To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time. Time is my greatest enemy. If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.     Where there is a worker, there ...

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. Born and raised in Virginia, Wilson earned a Ph.D. in political science, working as a professor and scholar at various institutions before being chosen as President of Princeton University, where he worked from 1902 to 1910.  I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow. If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vis...

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989,and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year.Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of the Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).He is a director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI),and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.In 2011 he was named as a member the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation. The web is more a social creation than a technical one. ...

Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George (born 14 November 1948), is the eldest child and heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II. Known alternatively in Scotland as Duke of Rothesay and in South West England as Duke of Cornwall,he is the longest-serving heir apparent in British history, having held the position since 1952.In 1981, he married Lady Diana Spencer and they had two sons, Prince William (born 1982) later to become Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Harry (born 1984). In 1996, the couple divorced, following well-publicised extra-marital affairs. Diana died in a car crash in Paris the following year.In 2005, Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles, who uses the title Duchess of Cornwall. Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.     Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and si...

Diana, Princess of Wales (1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997), was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, who is the eldest child and heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II. Only do what your heart tells you. I think like any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work. Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back. Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children. Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. I live for my sons. I would be lost without them. I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that. Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other...

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more commonly Leonardo da Vinci, (Italian: [leoˈnardo da (v)ˈvintʃi] ( listen); 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of paleontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank,[2][3][4] his genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.    The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.     Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.     There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.     Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falseho...

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general, resistant, writer and statesman. He was the leader of Free France (1940–44) and the head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic (1944–46). In 1958, he founded the Fifth Republic and was elected as the 18th President of France, until his resignation in 1969. He was the dominant figure of France during the Cold War era and his memory continues to influence French politics. Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.     It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.     Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, make...

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black chief executive, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation.  Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. For to be ...

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, the childless Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.    I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.    Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.    Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.    Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.    God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by the I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he ...

 Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He held academic positions at both Oxford University (Magdalen College), 1925–54, and Cambridge University (Magdalene College), 1954–63. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.Lewis's works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies. The books that make up The Chronicles of Narnia have sold the most and have been popularised on stage, TV, radio, and cinema. His works entered the public domain in 2014 in countries where copyright expires 50 years after the death of the creator, such as Canada. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dr...

Roald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; July 18, 1937) is an American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He has also published plays and poetry. He is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York.Hoffmann married Eva Börjesson in 1960. They have two children, Hillel Jan and Ingrid Helena One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules. I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly. I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry. I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

Marie Skłodowska Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), born Maria Salomea Skłodowska was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win twice in multiple sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.She was born in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.    Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attaine...

Manmohan Singh ( born 26 September 1932) is an Indian economist who served as the Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014. The first Sikh in office, Singh was the first prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term.Born in Gah (now in Punjab, Pakistan), Singh's family migrated to India during its partition in 1947. After obtaining his doctorate in economics from Oxford, Singh worked for the United Nations in 1966–69. He subsequently began his bureaucratic career when Lalit Narayan Mishra hired him as an advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Over the 70s and 80s, Singh held several key posts in the Government of India, such as Chief Economic Advisor (1972–76), Reserve Bank governor (1982–85) and Planning Commission head (1985–87).Singh married Gursharan Kaur in 1958. They have three daughters, Upinder Singh, Daman Singh and Amrit Singh.   Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global sco...

Navjot Singh Sidhu (ਨਵਜੋਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਿੱਧੂ, born 20 October 1963) is a former Indian cricketer and Member of Parliament from Amritsar (Lok Sabha constituency) between 2004 to 2014.He was born in Jatt Sikh family  in Patiala, in the Indian state of Punjab.He is married to Navjot Kaur Sidhu a doctor and a member of Punjab Legislative Assembly.The couple has a daughter named Rabia and a son named Karan. You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.     One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.     We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.     Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.     Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.     A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.     You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.     When you are dining with a demon, y...

Madhuri Dixit (born 15 May 1967) is an Indian actress who is known for her work in Hindi cinema. A leading actress of Bollywood in the 1980s, 1990s and early-2000s, Dixit has been praised by critics for her acting and dancing skills, and achieved mass popularity due to her physical beauty. She has received six Filmfare Awards, four for Best Actress, one for Best Supporting Actress and one special award. She has been nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress a record fourteen times. She was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award, by the Government of India in 2008.In 2014 she was appointed the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in India. She is married to the doctor Shriram Madhav Nene, with whom she has two children. Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life. I guess life offers you opportunities to live your dream. We just have to accept what comes our way and live those moments completely...

Kiran Bedi (born 9 June 1949) is an Indian politician, social activist, former tennis player and a retired police officer. Bedi joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972, becoming its first woman officer.As a teenager, Bedi became the national junior tennis champion in 1966. Between 1965 and 1978, she won several titles at national and state-level championships. After joining IPS, Bedi served in Delhi, Goa and Mizoram. She started her career as a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) in Chanakyapuri area of Delhi, and won the President's Police Medal in 1979. she joined BJP in 2015. She was BJP's Chief Minister (CM) candidate for the 2015 Delhi Assembly elections, She lost the election. My policing was nothing but activism - it had to be. I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people. I had a clear vision: if I take up an assignment, I'll do full justice to it; otherwise I'll walk away. The focus is what is right before you - to give it you...

 Chris Austin Hadfield OC OOnt MSC CD (born 29 August 1959) is a retired Canadian astronaut who was the first Canadian to walk in space. An engineer and former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot, Hadfield has flown two space shuttle missions and served as commander of the International Space Station. Hadfield, who was raised on a farm in southern Ontario, was inspired as a child when he watched the Apollo 11 Moon landing on TV. Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become. Almost everythi...

Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. (born January 20, 1930), known as Buzz Aldrin, is an American engineer and former astronaut, and the second person to walk on the Moon. He was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing in history. He set foot on the Moon at 03:15:16 on July 21, 1969 (UTC), following mission commander Neil Armstrong. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer and a Command Pilot. The nickname "Buzz" originated in childhood: the younger of his two elder sisters mispronounced "brother" as "buzzer", and this was shortened to Buzz. Aldrin made it his legal first name in 1988. If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.  Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space. I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person...

Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was an officer in the U.S. Navy and served in the Korean War. After the war, he earned his bachelor's degree at Purdue University and served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station, where he logged over 900 flights. He later completed graduate studies at the University of Southern California.          Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.      It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here o...

Kalpana Chawla (March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003) was the first Indian-American astronaut and first Indian woman in space.She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator. In 2003, Chawla was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Kalpana Chawla was born on March 17, 1962 in Karnal, Punjab, now in Haryana, India. She completed her earlier schooling at Tagore Baal Niketan Senior Secondary School, Karnal and completed her Bachelor of Engineering degree in Aeronautical Engineering at Punjab Engineering College at Chandigarh in 1982. She moved to the United States in 1982 where she obtained a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1984.Determined to become an astronaut even in the face of the Challenger disaster, Chawla went on to earn a second Masters in 1986 and a PhD in aerospace engineering in 1988 from the University of Colorado at...

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (born 24 April 1973) is a former Indian cricketer and captain, widely regarded to be one of the greatest cricketers of all time and by many as the greatest batsman of all time.He took up cricket at the age of eleven, made his Test debut on 15 November 1989 against Pakistan in Karachi at the age of sixteen, and went on to represent Mumbai domestically and India internationally for close to twenty-four years. He is the only player to have scored one hundred international centuries, the first batsman to score a double century in a One Day International, holds the record for most number of runs in both ODI and Test cricket, the only player to complete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket. In December 2012, Tendulkar announced his retirement from ODIs.He retired from Twenty20 cricket in October 2013 and subsequently announced his retirement from all forms of cricket,retiring on 16 November 2013 after playing his 200th and final Test match, against the Wes...