Great Quotes

I would like to share some Quotes which were shared by some Great People of our life..

Mother Teresa told her superiors-"I have three pennies and a dream of God to build an orphanage". Her superiors chided her "You cannot do anything with just three pennies". "I know that", the Mother replied. "But with God and three pennies, I can no anything!". The rest is history.

When asked, "What in your leadership enabled you to create so many millionaires,". Andrew Carnegie replied, "You get what you seek in liefe. If you seek filth, you find filth. I sought gold in my people and they turned out to be my gold mines."

During his tenure as the Finance Minister, our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh drew a salary of just Rs 2.- per day. He said, "In my own way, I have tried to repay whatever I could do to the country. A perfect day is the one when I have made moves that would satisfy my conscience."

After three failed attempts, Sir Edmund Hillary looked at Mount Everest and said with a clenched fist, "You have defeated me again. But I will return and I will defeat you because even as Everest you cannot grow any further, but I, as a human being can."

Socrates said, "Before you talk to me about anybody, take a triple filter test. The first filter-are you certain that it is true ? The second filter- is it something good ? The third filter- will it be useful to me ? If it is neither true nor good nor even useful, why tel it to me at all ? "

Abraham Lincold once saw a pig in the marshes. The president soild his clothes and saved the pig. He later said, "I was pained to see the suffering of the pig. By helping the pig, I had only relieved myslef of my affliction. I was actuall helping myself and not the pig."

The rains failed. Where 100 loads would be harvested, just half a load could be reaped. Robert H. Schuller prayed, "Thank you Lord for giving me back my seeds." He told his son, "Never look at what you have lost. Look at what you are left with. Gratitude gives you the surviving power."

While boarding a train, one of Mahatma Gandhi's sandals slipped and fell on the track. As the train had started moving, without hesitation he took off his other sandal, threw it out and said, "Now some poor man walking along the track will ahve the fortune of finding two."

Victor Frankl said, "We who survived the concentration camps offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man, but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.