Words worth keeping
55 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.
अगर आप सूरज की तरह चमकना चाहते हैं, तो पहले सूरज की तरह जलना सीखिए।
असफलता एक चुनौती है, इसे स्वीकार करो।
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।
योगः कर्मसु कौशलम्।
हर काम को पूरे मन से करो, यही सफलता की कुंजी है।
Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea.
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.
Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.
To laugh often and love much... this is to have succeeded.
Failure is important, but so is the courage to make a new beginning.
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.
World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.