We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
-George Washington
Quotations
Inspiration
If you mould yourself according to time and let yourself flow with the changing
circumstances, see, what you will soon transform into.
-Deep Trivedi
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
-Abraham Lincoln
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
-Henry Ford
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
-Oscar Wilde
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
-Confucius
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the centre and everything coming out equal. Even if you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"The Poisonwood Bible"
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
-William Shakespeare
I live like the birds on the branch. If there is no wind I stay there. But if it grows windy, I spread my wings and go where the wind carries me.
-Alexandre Dumas
Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
