Quotations

Compiled by Awais Rao

1. My last day at School

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

(Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes!

My peace with these, my love with those:

(Robert Burns)

What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my
friends. J. J. Watt

My school days were the happiest days of my life; Paul Merton

What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends. J. J.
Watt

2. Sports and Games

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Proverb

Winner never quit and quitters never win.

(Vince Lombardi)

"A healthy mind can realize God" Hazrat Ali R.A

"Games and sports widen the mental horizon of players and make them true followers
of the rule of law" Anonymous

"Games and sports develop character and give health which are quite essential for
improving the quality of life, acquiring wealth and success" Shahid Bashir

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. Michael Jordan

Sports do not build character. They reveal it. Heywood Broun

 3. Courtesy

The best amongst you are those who have the best manners and character.

(Hazrat Muhammad SAW)

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is "thank you", it will be enough.

(Meister Eckhart)

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything. Hazrat Ali R.A

Good manners keep the machinery of life oiled. Anonymous

A man without a sense of courtesy , is an animal with human form. Francis

Bacon.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. Theodore Roosevelt

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. Christian Nestell
Bovee

4. Libraries
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom
contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Mark Twain

Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

Sarah J. Maas

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may
find encouragement and comfort. E.B White

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius
Cicero

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all
the wars in history. Carl T. Rowan
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to
life. Norman Cousins

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges

5. Health and Physical Fitness

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise. Gene Tunney

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. Jim Rohn

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is
the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. John F. Kennedy

In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
Mahesh Babu

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate
until they have been depleted. Denis Waitley

Fitness helps me think better, feel better, and move better. Jason Winston
George

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings. Publilius Syrus

All the money in the world can't buy you back good health. Reba McEntire

6. Monsoon / A Rainy Day

I love the rain. It's my favourite weather.

(Rabindranath Tagore)

One touch of nature maketh the whole world kin.

(William Shakespeare)
 Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the Earth. Without rain there would
be no life. John Updike

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of
grandeur the very mountains.Henry Ward Beecher

Rain showers my spirit and waters my soul. Emily Logon

Some people feel the rain others just get wet. Roger Miller

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in rain. Ashutosh Panda

“Nature like man sometimes weeps for gladness” (Disraeli)

“The rain in the burning heat of summer is a blessing of God”

“The best part of the beauty is that which no picture can describe”
“He send rain on the just and the unjust” (New-Testament)
“The daily showers rejoice the thirsty earth, and bless the flowery buds”

7. Hockey Match / Cricket Match

Hockey / Cricket is a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every

game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.
Paul Coffey

Hockey / Cricket is a man's game. The team with the most real men wins.
Brian Burk

Almost every normal man desires to be proficient in one sport or another. Anonymous

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation
Bophop

Sport is a preserver of health.

Keats

8. A True Muslim
A true Muslim is one from whose hand and tongue the others are safe." (Hazrat
Muhammad ‫ﷺ‬

When your heart feels satisfied because of any of your good act and mourns
about any of your wrongdoing, then know, you have become a true Muslim" (Hazrat
Muhammad ‫)ﷺ‬

A true Muslims is one who loves the human being. (Saif Ullah Zahid)

A Muslim is true if there is no difference between his claim and conduct.

Anonymous

To my Muhammad be but true, and thou hast conquered Me;

The world is naught: thou shalt command My Pen of Destiny.

(Allama Iqbal)

Whoever follows a path in pursuit of knowledge, Allah makes his way easy to
paradise." (Al-Bukhari)

“A true Muslim is one who does not defame or abuses others; but a truly
righteous becomes a refuge for mankind, their lives and their properties”.
Muhammad (P.B.U.H)

Do not show the face of Islam to others; instead show your face as the followers
of true Islam representing character, knowledge, tolerance and piety”. (Syed
Ahmad Khan)

Seek knowledge from the Cradle to the Grave. Hadith

9. City Life
God made the country and man-made the town. William Cowper

All great art is born of metropolis. Ezra Pound

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. Aristotle

Recreation is not only joy but need of a man. Anonymous

 What is a city, but the people true people are the city. Coriolanus.

"In cities life is heaven for the rich and hell for the poor" M. Shakel

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Martin Oppenheimer

10. Village Life.

God made the country, and man made the town.

(William Cowper)

Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.

(Confucius

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose my honor I lose myself." William Shakespeare

Recreation is not only joy but need of a man. Anonymous

Village is a place where you can find peace,unity,strength,inspiration and most importantly
a natural and beautiful life

Minahil urfan

When I have a chance to go back to my village, I always remind myself where I came
from. Mohamed Salah

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely. Jan Karon

11. Quaid e Azam

LIVES OF GREAT MEN ALL REMIND US WE CAN MAKE OUR LIVES

SUBLIME
AND DEPARTING LEAVES BEHIND US FOOTPRINT S ON THE SANDS
OF THEM.” –LONG FELLOW
 QUALITY, NOT QUANTIT Y SHOULD BE THE MEAS URE OF ONE’S
CHARACTER.
-CHARLES LAMB

If there were one hundred Gandhi and two hundred Abdul Kalam Azad with the
Muslim League but only one Muhammad Ali Jinnah with the Congress so that India
would have never been divided.” Jawahar Lal Nehru

Jinnah is a historic personality which takes birth once in a century. (Mussolini)

Gandhi died by the hands of an assassin; Jinnah died by his devotion to Pakistan.
Lord Pethick Lawrence.

We believe in one God, They believe in many Gods. We don't have cast system, they
have cast system. We can't be interned nor interline. How can we live together?"
Quaid e Azam

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the
world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali
Jinnah did all three.

Stanley Wolpert

12. Boy Scouts

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. Robert Baden-Powell

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything

unexpected happens. Robert Baden-Powell

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders
in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second. Robert Baden-
Powell

Scouting is a Game with a Purpose"

-- William Hillcourt

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it."
-- Robert Powell

13. My Favourite Book.

The Holy Quran is the greatest book of knowledge and instruction for all humanity
and for all time. Anonymous
Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed and some to be chewed and
digested. Francis Bacon.

The superiority and preference of the Holy Quran on all other books and

sayings is the same as the superiority of Almighty over His creatures.

(Hazrat Muhammad SAW)

This is the (most honored, matchless) Book: there is no doubt about , guidance for
those conscious of Allah. Quran.

Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur'an and indeed, We will be its guardian. Al
Quran

All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a
non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over black
nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action. Hadith

14. My Ambition / My Aim in Life

“A useless life is an early death”. (Goethe)

The purpose of life should be a life of purpose. (Long Fellow)

“The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life”. Robert Browning

“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding”. Robert Stevenson

What makes life deary is the want of a motive. (George Eliot)

When a person does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right
wind. Seneca

Great amibition is the passion of a great character. (Napoleon)

Big results require big ambitions. (James Chaupy)

If you have confidence in yourself you can achieve anything. (Asad Hussain)

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Napoleon

The height by great men reached and kept

were not attained by sudden flight,

but they, while their companions slept,

were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

15. My Hobby

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

(Phyllis McGinley)

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. (Gertrude

What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare. D.H Davies

I will be the gladdest thing

Under the sun!

I will touch a hundred flowers

And not pick one. Vincent Millay

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find
sufficient purpose for my day.

Robert Breault

An activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure. Oxford Dictionary

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy. William
Shakespeare

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
 16. My Best Friend

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. Aristotle

Man is a social animal. Aristotle

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Aristotle

A friend in need is a friend indeed. Proverb

Friendship is sheltering tree. S.T Coleridge

Do not protect yourself by a fence but rather your friends. Czech Proverb.

When the character of a man is not clear to you , look at his friends. Japanese
Proverb.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. Francis Bacon

Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys,
fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

Francis Bacon.

Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
Francis Bacon

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half. Francis Bacon

Friends are thieves of time. Francis Bacon

17. My House

House is where your story begins. Annie Danielson

House is the starting place of love, hope and dreams. Anonymous

The magic thing about house is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to
come back. Wendy Wunder
House is where love resides, memories are created, friends always belong, and laughter
never ends. Anonymous

House isn't a place, its a feeling. Cecelia Ahern

House is a shelter from storms-all sorts of storms.”-William J. Bennett