200+ quotations for Essay

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200+ QUOTATIONS
FOR IAS EXAM
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-Mahatma Gandhi
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Why are Quotes important for the IAS Mains exam?
In this book, we have compiled quotes that are important from the UPSC
exam point of view. Quotes add a lot of value to your answers in the IAS
exam. Quotations can not only be used in Essay and Ethics papers but also
in other General Studies papers. This small book will help you in fetching
additional marks if you use these quotes properly.
You can use quotes for the introduction of essays. For example, you
can introduce an essay based on EDUCATION with the following
quote-
“If your plan is for one year, plant rice.
If your plan is for ten years, plant trees.
If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children. ”
-Confucius
In the same way, you can Conclude Education based essay with the
following quote-
"Teach to transform,
educate to empower and
learn to lead."
You have very limited time and space Ethics paper. So every word
matters. In such a case, you can paraphrase quotes and deliver more
content in a short space. For example, in questions related to
Kindness virtue, you can use the following quote-
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
-Mark Twain
Quotes can also be used in other General studies papers. For

instance, to explain the importance of elections, you can mention
the following quote-
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
- Abraham Lincoln
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For questions related to Fundamental Duties, you can use the

following quote-
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
-Ralph Nader
So try to memorize quotations and score more marks. However,

follow the following rules-
● Don’t use more than two quotes per essay. The use of many
quotes may show a lack of your own ideas and content.
● Never change the text of quotes. If you don’t remember exact
words, you can paraphrase the quote. But then do not mention
the name of the author/ thinker.
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Dr. GAURAV J. SONTAKE
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EDUCATION
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to
change the world”.
-Nelson Mandela
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live

forever.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“The pen is mightier than the sword.”

-Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at

all.”
-Aristotle
“What terrifies religious extremists like the Taliban are not American
tanks or bombs or bullets… It’s a girl with a book.”
-Malala Yousafzai
“One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the
world.”
-Malala Yousafzai
“Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach
him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.”
-Confucius
“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope"

-KOFI ANNAN
“Education Starts in the Womb and ends in the Tomb.”
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VALUE EDUCATION
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think”
-Margaret Mead
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought

without accepting it.”
-Aristotle
“If your plan is for one year, plant rice.

If your plan is for ten years, plant trees.
If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children.”
-Confucius
"We want the education by which character is formed, strength of

mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can
stand on one's own feet"
-Swami Vivekananda
“Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”

-Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Education that does not mould the character is absolutely

worthless.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make

man a more clever devil.”
-CS Lewis
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can
do the work of one extraordinary man.”
-Elbert Hubbard
“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men,
but that men will begin to think like computers.”
-Sydney Harris
“I fear the day when technology will suppress human interaction and
the world will have a generation of idiots.”
-Albert Einstein
“It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting

edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of
survival.”
-Bill Clinton
“All the sciences are for this one end, to bring happiness to
humanity.”
-Swami Vivekanand
“Machinery has its place; it has come to stay. But it must not be
allowed to displace the necessary human labour.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

-Albert Einstein
“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed

without evidence.”
-Christopher Hitchens
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided
missiles and misguided men”
-Martin Luther King Jr.
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SOCIAL MEDIA
“The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to
voiceless people.”
-Jon Ronson
“Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the

strength of human values, not identities.”
-Narendra Modi
"The Internet is becoming the town square for the Global village of
tomorrow"
-Bill Gates
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VISION OF INDIA
I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free
of illiteracy and want.
-Atal Bihari Vajpayee
“Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this
world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.”
-Dr APJ Abdul Kalam
“India is an ancient civilization, yet a modern state with modern

dreams.”
“Food for every mouth

Work for every hand,
Spark in every eye and
Joy in every soul.”
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CHILD RIGHTS
“There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in
which it treats its children.”
-Nelson Mandela
“Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and

lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the Nation and the
citizens of tomorrow.”
-Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
“A child miseducated is a child lost.”

-John F Kennedy
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WOMEN
“I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress
which women have achieved.’’
-Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done,
ask a woman.”
-Margaret Thatcher
“Country can never be developed without the contribution of the

other half.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Educate one man, you educate one person, but educate a woman
and you educate a whole civilisation.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Women alone can emancipate themselves, not men.”

-Mahatma Gandhi
“Empower a woman - Empower a community”

-Kofi Annan
“When women do better economies do better”

-Christine Lagarde
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YOUTH
"Any society that does not succeed in tapping into the energy and
creativity of its youth will be left behind.”
-Kofi Annan
“Young people should be at the forefront of global change and

innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and
peace.”
-Kofi Annan
“While students are just 40% of our population, they are 100% of our
future!”
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INEQUALITY
“I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from
inequality of one kind or another.”
-Amartya Sen
“India should not be a pyramidal but an oceanic circle of complete

equality.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”

-Voltaire
“Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater

equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.”
-Thomas Piketty
The widening gap between rich and poor is not just natural
phenomena. It is a sign that much of what we have been doing,
especially in terms of models of economic growth, has been wrong."
-Winnie Byanyima
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CASTE & UNTOUCHABILITY

“Caste is a notion, it is a state of the mind. The destruction of Caste
does not therefore mean the destruction of a physical barrier. It
means a notional change.”
-Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
“Untouchability shuts all doors of opportunities for betterment in life

for Untouchables. It does not offer an Untouchable any opportunity
to move freely in society.”
-Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
“Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.”

-Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.

-Thomas Reid
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POVERTY & HUNGER

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Poverty is like a punishment for a crime you didn’t commit."

-Eli Khamarov
“Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to

realize one's full potential as a human being”.
-Amartya Sen
“The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the
illiterate, the ignorant.”
-VR Krishna Iyer, former Supreme Court judge
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to
them except in the form of bread.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims

millions of victims each year.”
-Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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PEACE & JUSTICE

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will
know peace”.
-Jimi Hendrix
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”

-Dwight D. Eisenhower
“An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to

the world and to India herself.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”

-John Steinbeck
“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but
World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
-Albert Einstein.
“Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.”
-John F.Kennedy
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence

of justice”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ”

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“We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we

must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty,
and backwardness”.
-Atal Bihari Vajpayee
“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”

-Joseph Fort Newton
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CONSTITUTION
"Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their
political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of
liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their
religion denies them."
-Dr. B R Ambedkar
“Capable, strong men of character and integrity can make the best
even of a defective Constitution. And if not, then even a perfect
Constitution can’t help the country.”
“Our Constitution is a consequence of our democratic culture which

reflects our ancient values.”
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GOVERNANCE & CORRUPTION

“Good governance is perhaps the single most important factor in
eradicating poverty and promoting development.”
-Kofi Annan
“Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It's

patriotism.”
-Joe Biden
“If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of

beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members
who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the
teacher.”
-Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
“Power doesn't corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of

power.”
-John Steinbeck
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DEMOCRACY
“The Tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy. is not so dangerous to the
public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.”
-Montesquieu
“There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.”

-Ralph Nader
“Freedom is not free”.

-Ronald Reagan
“Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the
minority.”
-Albert Camus
“In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power
but carries the ultimate responsibility.’’
-Norman Cousins
“A democracy is likely to degenerate into a tyranny if it does not

allow the opposition groups to criticise fairly, freely and frankly the
policies of the government.”
-Former Vice President S. Radhakrishnan
“Democracy is the Government of the people by the people and for

the people”
-Abraham Lincoln
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not
perish from the Earth.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“Prayer of the god leads to salvation in the temples but in politics, it

leads to dictatorship.’’
-Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
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“Democracy is a means to bring about a significant change in the

living conditions of the depressed without resorting to bloodshed.”
- Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
What Democracy should be? What Democracy actually is?
OF the people OFF the people
FOR the people FAR the people
BY the people BUY the people
“In a democracy, Vox populi (Voice of people) should be Vox Dei

(Voice of good).”
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ANIMAL RIGHTS
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by
the way its animals are treated”.
-Mahatma Gandhi
“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a

human being.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living

beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men
massacre animals, they will kill each other.
-Pythagoras
A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the
same way they look today upon a man's murder.
-Leonardo da Vinci
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FREEDOM & LIBERTY

“The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms
that members of the society enjoy.”
-Amartya Sen
“Freedom is not just the end state of development, but also one of its
principal means”
-Amartya Sen
“Every law is an infraction of liberty.”

-Jeremy Bentham
“As the government expands, liberty contracts.”
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FREEDOM OF SPEECH
“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced”
-Malala Yousafzai
“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
-Malala Yousafzai
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be
led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
-George Washington
“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”

-Benjamin Franklin
“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”

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MEDIA & FAKE NEWS

“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.”
-Jim Morrison
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man
who reads nothing, but newspapers.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“The most important service rendered by the press and the

magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter
with distrust.”
-Samuel Butler
“The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.”

-Thomas Jefferson
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting
on its shoes.”
-Mark Twain
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INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT
“You cannot have peace without security, and you cannot have
security without inclusive development.”
-Kofi Annan
“Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation

than by the further enrichment of the opulent.”
-Amartya Sen
“The test of progress is not whether we add more to the abundance

of those who have much; It is whether we provide enough for those
who have little.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just

transforming economies.”
-Joseph E. Stiglitz
“Economic growth without investment in human development is

unsustainable - and unethical.”
-Amartya Sen
“Those who would benefit most from a service a least likely to obtain
it.”
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ENVIRONMENT
“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”
-Marshall McLuhan
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from
our children.”
-David Brower
“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.”
-Thomas Fuller
“Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.”

Gil Scott-Heron
“This is our world, a common world. Everybody should feel a

common responsibility"
-Ban Ki Moon
“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact
plans to protect man.”
-Stewart Udall
“Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two
Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.”
-JOHN F. KENNEDY
“Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find.”
“Earth does not belong to human beings. Human beings belong to

the Earth.”
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends,
have become global garbage cans.”
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A Dialogue Between God and Man

“You created the soil, I created the cup,
you created night, I created the lamp.
You created wilderness, hilly terrains and deserts; I created flower
beds and gardens.”
(From ‘A Dialogue Between God and Man’ by Muhammad Iqbal)
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CLIMATE CHANGE
"Climate change is simply, the greatest collective challenge we face
as a human family"
-Ban Ki Moon
"Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the

same coin"
-Ban Ki Moon
"Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who
you are- rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call
global challenges, which require global solidarity"
-Ban Ki Moon
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TERRORISM
“Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding
it at gunpoint.”
-Christopher Hitchens
“If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to

terrorism, they have won.”
-Joichi Ito
“Terrorism is systematic, operational, planned use of violence for

ideological, political or religious goals.”
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RELIGION
“The purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticise
others”.
-Dalai Lama XIV
“Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain
power”
-Julian Casablancas
“Be kind to all creatures; this is the true religion.”

-Buddha
“Same method of investigation which applies to other sciences

should form the basis on which religion is to justify itself.”
-Swami Vivekanand
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ETHICS
“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full
victory.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from

indomitable will.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“The good man is the friend of all living things.”

-Mahatma Gandhi
“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”

-Mahatma Gandhi
“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he

becomes.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

-Buddha
“Life isn’t just about taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide.”
-Malala Yousafzai
“They can only shoot a body, they cannot shoot my dreams.”

-Malala Yousafzai
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a
habit.”
-Aristotle
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while
bad people will find a way around the laws.”
-Plato
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“Life should be great rather than long.”
-Dr. B. R. AMBEDKAR
“The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest

number that is the measure of right and wrong.”
-Jeremy Bentham
“Noble Goals can be achieved only through Noble Means.”

-Mahatma Gandhi
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither
safe, nor politic, nor popular but he must take it because conscience
tells him it is right.”
“The breach of one rule inevitably leads to the breach of other rules.”
-Mahatma Gandhi.
“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics
he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.”
-Immanuel Kant
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few

drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

-Socrates
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate
cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Economic crisis is temporary but the moral crisis is permanent.”
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VIRTUES
FORGIVENESS
“Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is
not in his nature.”
-Laurence Sterne
“If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.”

-Mother Theresa
PATIENCE
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
-Aristotle
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

-Benjamin Franklin
NON-VIOLENCE
“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is
temporary.”
“Non-violence is the weapon of the strong & violence the weapon of

the weak.”
TRUTH
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
-Mark Twain
“There is only one good, knowledge and one evil ignorance.”

-Socrates
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

-Oscar Wilde
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“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to

stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
-Mark Twain
HAPPINESS
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do
are in harmony.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
TOLERANCE
“Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth
of a true democratic spirit”.
-Mahatma Gandhi
KINDNESS
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a
thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can
see.”
-Mark Twain
COURAGE
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every
virtue at the testing point.”
-C. S. Lewis
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the

world and moral courage so rare.”
-Mark Twain
HONESTY
“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
-William Shakespeare
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“Honesty is the best policy when there is money in it.”

-Mark Twain
“We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our
children that honesty is the best policy.”
-George Bernard Shaw
GRATITUDE
“Gratitude is a flower that blooms in noble souls”.
-Pope Francis
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WISDOM
“It is easy to give power, it is difficult to give wisdom.”
-Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”

-Charles Dickens
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

-Aristotle
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

-Socrates
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

-Oprah Winfrey
“Don't Gain the World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than
Silver or Gold.”
-Bob Marley
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.”

-Thomas Jefferson
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

-Immanuel Kant
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PERSEVERANCE
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk
then crawl, but whatever may do you have to keep moving forward.”
“Rarest of all human quality is consistency.”

-Jeremy Bentham
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
then you win.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much
longer.”
-Albert Einstein
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COMPASSION & EMPATHY

“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others
are a sign of strength.”
-Billy Graham
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”

-Arthur Schopenhauer
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

-Mother Theresa
“Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its
full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not
limit itself to mankind.”
-Albert Schweitzer
“There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not
also tender and compassionate. “
-Bishop Robert South
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SERVICE TO MANKIND
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of
others.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“It is a privilege to serve mankind, for this is the worship of God.”

-Swami Vivekanand
“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”

-Winston Churchill
“Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because

greatness is determined by service.”
“Before you do anything, stop and recall the face of the poorest, most
helpless destitute person you have seen and ask yourself, Is What I
am about to do going to help him?”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Consideration for others is the basis of a good life and good society.”
-Confucius
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LEADERSHIP
“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means
getting along with people”.
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Leadership is your instinct, then it's your training. Leaders are

always positive, they never complain.”
-Jack Ma
“A leader should incentivize, but not with money. You give trust,
respect, appreciation, and correct, heartfelt advice.”
-Jack Ma
“I always find people smarter than I am. Then my job is to make sure
smart people can work together. Stupid people can work together
easily, smart people can't.”
-Jack Ma
“We must become the change we want to see.”

-Mahatma Gandhi
“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in

their mission can alter the course of history.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”

-John F. Kennedy
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CONSCIENCE
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither
safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience
tells him it is right.”
“There is a higher court than courts of justice, and that is the court
of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“In matter of conscience, the law of majority has no place.”

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”

-Mark Twain
“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be

looking.”
-H.L. Mencken
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CHARACTER
“When Wealth Is Lost, Nothing Is Lost;
When Health Is Lost, Something Is Lost;
When Character Is Lost, All Is Lost”.
-Billy Graham
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s
character, give him power.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“Dreams are touchstones of our characters.”

- Henry David Thoreau
“Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal
law.”
-Immanuel Kant
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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
“The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head, that is,
intellect. “
-Mahatma Gandhi
“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you
care.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
“Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”

-Benjamin Franklin
“It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not

the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over
head--it is the unique intersection of both.”
-David Caruso
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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IMPORTANCE OF ACTION
“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do
nothing.”
-Edmund Burke
“The world is a dangerous place not because of those who do evil,

but because of those who look on and do nothing.”
-Albert Einstein
“A journey to thousand miles begins with one step.”

-Laozi
“You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the
water.”
-Rabindranath Tagore
“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”

– Benjamin Franklin
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MATERIALISM/ CONSUMERISM
“To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not
love things and use people.”
-John Powell
“The world has enough for everyone's needs, but not everyone's
greed.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow

minds.”
-Jack Ma
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SUCCESS
“Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to
success, and, above all, love.”
-Swami Vivekananda
“Success is not about how much money you make, it’s about the
difference you make in people’s lives.”
-Michelle Obama
“A truly successful person is not one who achieves his highest

ambitions, but one who enjoys helping others reach theirs.”
-Charbel Tadros
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
– Herman Cain
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COMMUNICATION
“A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes'
merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“One should use common words to say uncommon things.”

-Arthur Schopenhauer
"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be
understood."
- Ralph Nichols
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INTEGRITY
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge
without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
- Samuel Johnson
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging

principles.”
-Jimmy Carter
“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be

compromised.”
-Chinua Achebe
“When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of

integrity – regardless of what others may do – you are destined
for greatness.”
-Napoleon Hill
“It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but
without integrity you will never be one.”
-Zig Ziglar
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SANSKRIT QUOTES
Ahimsa Paramo Dharma
( Non-violence is the topmost duty to the extent that it supersedes
all other duties.)
Kshama Virasya Bhushanam

(FORGIVENESS ADORNS THE BRAVE!)
Sarvajan hitay, sarvajan sukhay

(Welfare of all, prosperity for all).
Yatra Naryastu Pujyante Ramante Tatra Devata

(Where women are honored, divinity blossoms there.)
Sidhir bhavati karmaja.

(Success is born of action)
Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya.

(From darkness, lead me to light)
Prakruti Rakshati Rakshita

(Nature Protects if She is Protected)
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam
(The World is One Family)
Yatho Dharma Thatho Jayaha

(Where there is justice, there is victory.)
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MISCELLANEOUS
“Rights are protected not by law but by the social and moral
conscience of society.”
-Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
“Everything else can wait, agriculture can't.”

-Norman Borlaug
“Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for

all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve
social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen
governance.”
-Ban Ki Moon
“An Ounce of prevention is worth a Pound of cure”

-Benjamin Franklin
“Nobody makes money catching whales, people make money

catching whales, people make money catching shrimps.”
-Jack Ma
“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for
your country.”
-John F. Kennedy
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr
“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle

stand like a rock.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“If you can not feed a hundred people then feed just one.”
-Mother Teresa
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“Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or

imposed from outside a country.”
-Émile Jamil Lahoud
“The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its

performance.”
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
“Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you

think is right and stick to it.”
-George Eliot
"It is the health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver"
-MAHATMA GANDHI
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Dr. GAURAV J. SONTAKE

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live

“The pen is mightier than the sword.”

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at

“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope"

“Education Starts in the Womb and ends in the Tomb.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought

“If your plan is for one year, plant rice.

"We want the education by which character is formed, strength of

“Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”

“Education that does not mould the character is absolutely

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

“It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed

“Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the

-Atal Bihari Vajpayee

“India is an ancient civilization, yet a modern state with modern

“Food for every mouth

“Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and

“A child miseducated is a child lost.”

“Country can never be developed without the contribution of the

“Women alone can emancipate themselves, not men.”

“Empower a woman - Empower a community”

“When women do better economies do better”

“Young people should be at the forefront of global change and

“India should not be a pyramidal but an oceanic circle of complete

“It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”

“Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater

CASTE & UNTOUCHABILITY

“Untouchability shuts all doors of opportunities for betterment in life

“Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.”

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.

POVERTY & HUNGER

“Poverty is like a punishment for a crime you didn’t commit."

“Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to

“Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims

PEACE & JUSTICE

“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”

“Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ”

“We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we

“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”

“Our Constitution is a consequence of our democratic culture which

GOVERNANCE & CORRUPTION

“Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It's

“If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of

“Power doesn't corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of

“There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.”