Hope is a good thing

In Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged, Ken Danagger asks Dagny Taggart:

“And if you met those great men in heaven, . . . what would you want to say to them?”

“Just . . . just hello, I guess.”

“That’s not all,” said Danagger. “There’s something you’d want to hear from them . . . you’d want them to look at you and say, Well done.”

I hope even i get a well done and a pat on my back from my heroes in heaven. I hope i deserve it. I hope i live my life in a way that makes me deserve it.

Tesla sir are you listening? Whenever i see lightning in the sky, i know you are at one of your experiments up there. You have been one of my major motivations. I don't know how i would do justice to you.. but i would.. i hope i would.

As in Shawshank Redemption

Andy Dufresne: [in letter to Red] "Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

Hope is a good thing when you are not sure about how things would work out. Don't forget to hope.

Nilesh J Sakpal :)

Burning the candle at both ends

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night ;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!

-First Fig
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Better burn out than fade away
- Kurt Cobain





:)

Quotes

"If the idea does not seek to be the word, the chances are that it is an evil idea. If the word is not made flesh it is a bad word."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"It is not locomotives, but ideas, that drive and carry the world."
Víctor Hugo

"Ideas are not mute paintings on a chalkboard; an idea, as such, includes an assertion or a negation of something."
Baruch de Spinoza

"If a man risks nothing for his ideas, it is either that they are worth nothing, or that the man is worth nothing."
Platón

"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
Mark Twain

"What drives and carries the world forward are not machines but ideas."
Víctor Hugo

"Ideas light each other like sparks of electricity."
Johann Jakob Engel

"Ideas are not responsible for what men do with them."
Werner Heisenberg

"Ideas don't last long. Something has to be done with them."
Santiago Ramón y Cajal

"Great ideas are those that surprise us most because we didn't think of them earlier."
Noel Clarasó

"Ideas move the world only if they have previously been transformed into emotion."
Elizabeth Taylor

"Ideas lie above nationalities, motherlands, and governments."
Eduardo Haro Tecglen

"The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself."
Bernard Baruck

"As long as there is someone who believes in an idea, that idea will remain alive."
José Ortega y Gasset

"We would never have come to many of our own ideas, had we not held long conversations with others."
Noel Clarasó

"In searching for words we come to ideas."
Joseph Joubert

"To innovate is to find a new or better use of the resources already at our disposal."
Peter Drucker:)

Quotes

"The slowest of men, who does not not however lose sight of his objective, will always be quicker than he who does not follow a fixed goal."
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

"Ideas are corroborated by suggestions."
Salomon

"There is nothing more powerful in the world than an idea arriving at the right time."
Víctor Hugo

"Ideas stimulate the mind."
Hoffer

"The higher a man sets his goal, the more he will grow."
Friedrich con Schiller

"Man must not blindly follow a fixed course."
Ángel Ganivet

"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."
Henry Ford

"Most of our failures arise from wanting to hasten the hour of success."
Amado Nervo

"The secret of success lies in sincerity. Once you can fake that, you have it made."
Groucho Marx

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."
Benjamin Disraeli

"Success is learning to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
Benjamin Disraeli

"Our reward lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory."
Mahatma Gandhi

"Do what you must to achieve your most fervent desire, and you will end up succeeding."
Ludwig van Beethoven

"The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who does nothing."
Goethe

"The man who makes a mistake and does not correct it, makes an even greater mistake." Confucius

"Hope awakens the determination to start something, while only patience can finish it."
Anonymous

"In times of crisis, only imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein

"There is something more important than logic: the imagination."
Alfred Hitchcock

"There is not a more accurate test of the progress of civilization than the progress in the power of co-operation."
John Stuart Mill

"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
Henry Havelock Ellis

"True progress consists of renovating oneself."
Alexandre Vinet

"We owe progress to those who are unsatisfied."
Aldous Huxley

"Progress and development are impossible if one continues doing things the way one always has."
Wayne W. Dyer

"Progress does not consist of annihalating yesterday today, but, on the contrary, of conserving that essence of yesterday that had the virtue of creating that better today."
José Ortega y Gasset

"Progress consists of change."
Miguel Unamuno

"Many small people in many small places will do small things that will change the world."
Leo Buscaglia

"If the change inside your organization is slower than the change outside your company, the end is in sight."
Jack Welch

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."
Steve Jobs

"Innovation requires a systematic approach, because it is unpredictable."
Peter Drucker

"The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention."
Nikola Tesla

"Tradition is a challenge to innovation."
Alvaro Siza

"Innovations should be introduced little by little, almost imperceptibly."
Don Bosco

"To be ahead of the rest, you need to see more than they do."
José Marti

"Just like the river creates its own banks, the legitimate idea creates its own paths and channels."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We should never become too obsessed with the idea we are after."
Claude Bernard

"All truth passes through 3 phases:
First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident."
Henry George

"Trenches made of ideas are worth more than trenches made of stone."
José Martí

"All ideas, even sacred ones, must adapt to altered realities."
Salman Rushdie

"Ideas should be reciprocally compensated, contrasted, balanced out and, even destroyed."
Miguel de Unamuno

"We hear without seeking to hear, we receive without asking what we look for. Like lightning, the idea appears absolute, necessary, without doubt or hesitation."
Nietzsche

"Whoever fears the idea, ends up also losing the concept."
Goethe

"Only a savage beast will not understand that ideas cannot be fought with cannon-shots."
Catalina of Aragon

"Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent."
Rivarol

"Ideas are forces."
Nietzsche

"If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person."
Ralph Johnson

"Ideas are not to be imposed, they are to be proposed."
Jean Paul II

"What is important is not to have many ideas, but the right idea for each occasion."
Juan Zorrilla

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Quotes

"Plan: to bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result."
Ambrose Bierce

"The way to hit the nail once is to hit the horseshoe a hundred times."
Miguel de Unamuno

"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."
Samuel Johnson

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
Napoleón I

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Oliver Goldsmith

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
Theodore Roosevelt

"If you fall down seven times, get up eight times."
Chinese proverb

"Dare to think!"
Immanuel Kant

"Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous."
Confucio

"Never walk the beaten track, because it will only take you where others have already been."
Alexander Graham Bell

"There are always opportunities for those who know where to look."
Tomás Pascual Sanz

"Small opportunities are at the origin of great enterprises."
Demóstenes

"Works are never finished, they are abandoned."
Paul Ambroise Valéry

"A work is half finished when one begins it well."
Séneca

"Only ideas can save entire races."
Balzac

"Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent."
Rivarol

"An uncivilized man has nothing but emotions; a civilized man has emotions and ideas."
Balzac

"An idea is a meteorite."
Víctor Hugo

"A fixed idea seems a great idea, not because it is great but because it fills an entire brain."
Jacinto Benavente

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
George Bernard Shaw

"The interest that blinds some, enlightens others."
François de La Rochefoucauld

"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uniterested person."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds are interested in the ordinary."
Victor Hugo

"It is while attempting the impossible that one achieves what is possible."
Henri Barbusse

"All things are impossible while they seem to be so."
Concepción Arenal

"Since they did not know it was impossible, they did it."
Anonymous

"For the possible to emerge, one must repeatedly attempt the impossible."
Hermann Hesse

"Being inventive is not enough; what is most important is to apply your inventiveness well."
René Descartes

"Imagination is the voice of daring."
Henry Miller

"I disagree with your ideas, but I defend your sacred right to express them."
Voltaire

"Genius begins great works, labour alone finishes them."
Joseph Joubert

"Knowing is not enough, one must also apply one's knowledge. Wanting is not enough, one must also act."
Goethe

"Humanity has learnt less from right ideas than from bad experience."
Hjalmar Schacht

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can imagine it, you can create it."
Albert Einstein

"If you fall seven times, get up eight times."
Chinese proverb

"I have no special talents, but I am profoundly curious."
Albert Einstein

"Many scientists were not happy with the idea that the universe had a beginning, a moment of creation."
Stephen Hawking

"Nobody knows what he is capable of until he tries."
Publio Siro
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Quotes

"The creation of a thousand forests is contained in one acorn."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein

"Search inside yourself for the solution to all problems, even those you think most external and material."
Amado Nervo


"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
Socrates

"Someone with imagination can easily bring an entire world out of nothing."
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

"An intelligent person searches for the experience he or she wishes to live."
Aldous Huxley

"Most men have an intellectual capacity far superior than what they use."
José Ortega y Gasset

"Where science ends, imagination begins."
Jules de Gaultier

"Intelligence and common sense make their way with little artifice."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

“We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance."
Benjamin Disraeli

"If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else."
Laurence J. Peter

"Doubt is one of the names of intelligence."
Jorge Luis Borges

"To improve our knowledge, we must learn less and reflect more."
René Descartes

"Talent is quite common. It is not intelligence that is scarce, but constance."
Doris Lessing

"Intelligence consists not only in knowledge, but in how that knowledge is put to practice."
Aristotle

"Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating than intelligence. Intelligence has its limits, stupidity does not."
Claude Chabrol

"The first duty of intelligence is to doubt itself."
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

"In practice, only that which can be solved through intelligence is a problem."
Hermann Keyserling

"Intelligence is that which we use when we don't know what else to do."
Jean Piaget

"We were given intelligence so that we could doubt."
Emile Verhaeren

"Many times in life, work can accomplish more than genius."
Ward

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."
George Bernard Shaw

"In order to be successful in this world, one must appear to be mad, while in fact being wise."
Montesquieu

"Not taking risks is the most risky way of proceeding, so to avoid risks, I'll risk it."
Juanma Lillo

"Accept risks, life is nothing but an opportunity. The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."
Dale Carnegie

"I don't regret running all the risks I've run for what mattered to me."
Arthur Miller

"Sólo es posible avanzar cuando se mira lejos. Solo cabe progresar cuando se piensa en grande."
José Ortega y Gasset

"To dare: that is the price of progress."
Victor Hugo

"Problems are an opportunity to prove what you know."
Duke Ellington

"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it!"
Joseph Conrad

"Things done in a hurry are never done right; it is best to always act calmly."
San Francisco de Sales:)

Quotes

some quotes i felt adding

“The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B."
James A. Yorke

"If everyone is thinking alike, nobody is doing much thinking."
Walter Lippmann

"I have failed time and time again in my life, and that is why I have ended up reaching success."
Michael Jordan

“We never know how high we are till we are called to rise."
Emily Dickinson

“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“I have not failed. I have found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas Edison

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
Henry Ford

“Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas."
H. G Wells

“One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."
John Stuart Mill

"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
Wayne Gretzky

"I believe in being an innovator."
Walt Disney

"To live is to think."
Marcus Tullius Cicero

"New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!"
Arthur C. Clarke

"Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone."
Alexander Graham Bell

"The real world is much smaller than the imaginary."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"One of the most serious problems of our time is that many people believe that, since they have studied, they don't have to think anymore."
Aldo Cammarata

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
Milton Berle

"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."
David Ogilvy

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all."
Elbert Hubbard

"Never has effort hindered fortune."
Fernando de Rojas

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
Truman Capote

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
William Faulkner

"What good is there in inventiveness if it doesn't amuse us? There is nothing more tiresome than sad inventiveness."
Ivan Turgenev

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daily dose

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

-Plato

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
- Conrad Hilton


:)

Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
- Norman Vincent Peale



:)

quotes

'Wishes change nothing, Decisions change everything.

Unknown'

'Whether we make ourselves miserable or we make our selves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda'

'Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Henry Ford'

'We can do more than lead, we can inspire.

Unknown'


'There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.

William Frederick Halsey, Jr.'


'If we are growing, we will always going to be out of our comfort zone.

John Maxwell'


'Every thought we think is creating our future.

L. Hay'


'Do your work with all your heart and you will succeed. There is so little competition.

Elbert Hubbard'


'You must do the thing you think you can not do.

Eleanor Roosevelt'


'If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.

Benjamin Franklin'


'We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Konrad Adenaur'


'It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

Hugh Prather'


-Nilesh J Sakpal
:)

finding that objective

"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

:)

quotes

"Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were."
- Richard Paul Evans




'All things are possible until proved impossible...and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

Pearl S. Buck'

'The highest reward for a man\'s toil is not what he gets out of it but what he becomes by it.

John Ruskin'

'A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

William Hazlitt'

'Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.)'






Nilesh J Sakpal
:)

first step

"The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
decide what you want."
- Ben Stein


:)

inspiring quote

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but
tomorrow is ours to win or to lose."
- Lyndon B. Johnson

:)

swami vivekananda quotes 2

We must overcome difficulty by constant practice. We must learn that nothing can happen to us unless
we make ourselves susceptible to it.


Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.



Education is the manifestation of perfection present already in man


Strength is Life, Weakness is death


Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your
brothers, and let them go their own way.



The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that
is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach
God.



You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no
other teacher but your own soul.




It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things
beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see
things in the proper light. First, believe in this world -- that there is meaning behind everything.
Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you are
not understanding it in the right light. throw the burden on yourselves!

Quotes of Swami Vivekananda

when i came across these magical words ...it was divine

i never have thought about things in such a way

these words have answers to all our shortcomings
all our feelings
everything that we do .. daily

whenever i am in a crunch situation and feel confused about what to do

i talk to these great men through their ideas


their thoughts that have become immortal :)



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In a day when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are traveling in the
wrong path



Arise, Awake and Stop not till the Goal is Reached.



To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean”, says
the persevering soul; “at my will mountains will crumble up”. Have that sort of energy, that sort of
will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.



Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open
to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.




Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life
be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry
of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow --
never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times,
and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.



Say, ‘This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to
be undone by me alone.’
That which I created, I can demolish; that which is created by someone else, I
shall never be able to destroy.
Therefore, stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility
on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creators of your own destiny. All the strength and
succour you want is within ourselves.

Quotes of Aristotle

since the url is metaphysicalinsight

here are some of the quotes of the man himself

the GOD of metaphysics Aristotle


The gods too are fond of a joke.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Hope is a waking dream.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Nilesh j Sakpal

Friedrich Nietzsche

Dont knw much about him
but i came across his quotes and felt something... so shared them here
These great men have become immortal, havent they ?

Every generation that hears about them talks about them just breathes life back in them , their thoughts ....

Its like they are alive in their thoughts; thoughts that still vibrate in this universe with the same frequency as they did when they originated in the minds of these great men

Ahh!! i want to be IMMORTAL too
- Nilesh j Sakpal

Quotes---

One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.


He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you


I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time


So long as thou feelest the stars as an "above thee," thou lackest the eye of the discerning one.


Friedrich Nietzsche