statesman Quotes

You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.

Success is when your signature becomes an autograph.

Work with integrity and succeed with integrity

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This energy is released into the ether each night, as the mind falls into the sleep state. Each morning it returns...

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue...

To line only for some unknown future is superficial.

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.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to...

Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will...

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must...

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.

Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.

Pondering must turn out to be your cash asset, regardless of whichever ups and downs you occur throughout in the everyday living.

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.

Confidence and Hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you successful person.`

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.

Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

We need to create brand institutions. In the fortune 500 companies, 5 Indian companies are named while 15 are from China though we have similar kind of populations.

Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.

DONT DECLARE HOLIDAY ON MY DEATH, INSTEAD WORK AN EXTRA DAY, IF U LOVE ME

It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's...

Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.

There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

I'm not an expert on the arms race.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

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.