After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
-Cato The Elder
Quotations
Inspiration
I would rather make my name than inherit it.
-William Thackeray
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
-Jim Rohn
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
-Jim Rohn
Peace, happiness, satisfaction, compassion, freedom, concentration, etc. are the
qualities which lead you to those intrinsic powers lying deep within your mind...
from where the foundation of you becoming a "historical figure" gets laid.
-Deep Trivedi
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-Henry David Thoreau
One of the great discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find that he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
-Henry Ford
There is nothing wrong in having any kind of fancy in life or any physical act, if
done appropriately. Likewise, there is no virtue in visiting temples or worshipping
either. The goodness of being human lies in the qualities like compassion, self-
confidence, self-dependence and innocence which are tainted by attributes like
jealousy, partiality, selfishness and stubbornness.
-Deep Trivedi
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
-Vincent van Gogh
It always seems impossible until it's done.
-Nelson Mandela
