This document contains a collection of quotes from various well-known individuals on a variety of topics such as vision, circumstances, imagination, duty, patience, optimism, wisdom, success, anger, time, leadership, creativity, mistakes, friends, and more. The quotes provide insightful perspectives and words of advice related to different aspects of life.

1. Quotable Quotes
 Compiled by Spandane

2. A word from Compiler
 Since my childhood I am fond of collecting
sayings & quotes of well known personalities.
 This prompted me to think of Life realities,
Happiness, Sorrow, Problems, Relations etc.
 These sayings can help us in case of need.
 Spandane

3. Vision
 Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
 -----Jonathan Swift.

4. Circumstances
 Circumstances are the rulers of the
weak; they are but the instruments of the
wise.
 ---- Samuel Lover

5. Imagination
 Imagination is more important than
knowledge.
 ------Albert Einstein.

6. Improvement
 If you try to improve another person by
setting a good example…then you are
really improving two people.
 ----A Saying

7. Duty
 Every duty is holy and devotion to duty is
the highest form of worship of god.
 ----Swami Vivekananda

8. Patience
 Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.
 -----Rousseau.

9. Optimist
 Optimist sees opportunity in calamity,
Pessimist finds calamity in opportunity.
 ---A Saying

10. Wise man
 A prudent person profits from personal
experience, a wise man from the
experience of others.
 ----Dr. Joseph Collons.

11. Right
 Give to every other human being every
right that you claim for yourself.
 ---Thomas Paine.

12. Success
 Success goes to those who dare and act, it
seldom goes to the timid.
 ---Jawaharlal Nehru.

13. Angry
 Be angry with none except your own
weakness.
 ---Meher Baba.

14. Time
 Time is the scarcest resources and unless
it is managed, nothing can be managed.
 ---Peter Drucker.

15. Light
 There are two ways of spreading the
light; to be the candle or the mirror that
reflects it.
 ---Edith Wharton.

16. Drive
 It is easy to drive people; what is hard is
to lead them.
 -----Tagore.

17. Stupid & Intelligent
 The trouble with the world is that the
stupid are cocksure and the intelligent
full of doubt.
 -----Bertrand Russel.

18. Decision making
 It’s not hard to make decisions when you
know what your values are.
 ----Roy Disney.

19. Duty
 Duty is a very personal thing…It is what
comes from knowing the need to take
action….and not just a need to urge
others to do something.
 ----Mother Teresa.

20. Mistake
 He who makes mistake and fails to
correct it…makes another.
 ----A Saying.

21. Soul
 I will permit no man to narrow and
degrade my soul by making me hate him.
 --- Booker T. Washington.

22. Involvement
 Ask less often, “What’s in it for me?”
and ask often, “What’s in me for it?”
 Dr. john Ed Mathison.

23. Dream
 If you can dream it, you can do it.
 ---Walt Disney.

24. Creativity
 Creativity is finding new things …. Or
expressing old truths in new ways.
 ---- Roger Vol Oech.

25. Beginning & End
 What the caterpiller calls “the end” the
butterfly calls “ the beginning”.
 ---A Saying.

26. Curiosity
 Curiosity keeps us moving forward,
exploring, experimenting, opening new
doors.
 ----Walt Disney.

27. Mind
 Man’s mind once stretched by a new
idea….never regains its original
dimension.
 ---Oliver Wendell Holmes.

28. Winners
 Winners do not do different things, they
do things differently.
 ----A Saying.

29. Discipline
 Discipline is the refining fire by which
talent becomes ability.
 ---Roy Smith.

30. Death
 Death is not the greatest loss in life. The
greatest loss is what dies inside us while
we live.
 ---Cousins.

31. Growth
 If you play safe in life, you have decided
that you don’t want to grow any more.
 A Saying.

32. Cost & Quality
 The cost is long forgotten but the quality
is remembered forever.
 ---A Saying.

33. Right & fight
 Right is might, but no one wins who does
not fight.
 ----A Saying.

34. Life
 The measure of life is in its excellence,
not in it’s length.
 ---Plato.

35. Life
 Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or
duties, but of little things, in which smiles
and kindness, and small obligations given
habitually, are what preserve the heart
and secure comfort.
 ---Sir Humphry Davy

36. Action
 Repeat & Reform now. For tomorrow
will be too late.
 ---George Bernard Shaw.

37. Evil persons
 All evil people are alike; they keep
postponing the day of becoming good.
 ----K. L. Kark.

38. Wise man
 A wise man’s tongue is a shield, not a
sword.
 ----Proverb.

39. Rich
 He is rich who has such property that he
desires nothing beyond.
 ----Cicero.

40. Kindness
 Kindness is the language which the dumb
cab speak, the deaf can hear.
 ----Bovee.

41. Progress
 If we are to make progress we must not
repeat history, but make new history.
 ---Mahatma Gandhi.

42. Direction
 The great thing in this world is not so
much where we are, but in what
direction we are moving.
 ----O. W. Holmes.

43. Life
 I have no yesterdays, time took them
away; tomorrow may not be --But I have
today.
 -----Pearl.

44. Mistake
 A man who does things make mistakes,
but he never makes the biggest mistakes
of all -- doing nothing.
 ----Benjamin Franklin.

45. Punctuality
 Punctuality is the politeness of kings and
the duty of gentle people everywhere.
 ----King Louis XVIII.

46. Change
 Consider how hard it is to change
yourself and you will understand what
little chance you have trying to change
other.
 ---Arnold Glasgow.

47. Principles
 It is easier to fight for principles than live
up to them.
 ----Alfred Adler.

48. Moderation
 Moderation in temper is always a virtue,
but moderation in principle is always a
vice.
 ---Thomas Paine.

49. Example
 People may doubt what you say, but they
will believe what you do.
 ---A Saying.

50. Improvement & Happiness
 Be dis-satisfied enough to improve, but
satisfied enough to be happy.
 ---A Saying.

51. Planning
 Determine that the thing can and shall be
done, and then we shall find the way.
 ----Abraham Lincoln.

52. Criticism
 Criticism, like rain, should be gentle
enough to nourish a man’s growth
without destroying his roots.
 ----Frank A. Clerk.

53. Young
 He who lives with his memories becomes
old. He who lives with plans for the
future remains young.
 ----Wankton.

54. Success
 Success is never final and failure never
fatal. It is courage that counts.
 ----Proverb.

55. Action
 Think like a man of action, act like a man
of thought.
 -----Henri Bergson.

56. Work
 Never leave till Tomorrow which you can
do today.
 ---Benjamin Franklin.

57. Success
 For Success, attitude is equally as
important as ability.

58. Success
 Nothing succeeds like success.

59. Success
 Success is a result not a goal.

60. Success
 Stability is more essential to success than
brilliance.

61. Success & Failure
 Success is not forever, and failure is not
fatal.

62. Success
 Success is more attitude than aptitude.

63. Success
 The only place where success comes
before work is in the dictionary.

64. Secret
 The secret of business is to know
something that nobody else knows.

65. Success
 We can not direct the wind, but we can
adjust the sails.

66. Risk
 You can not discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose sight of the
shore.

67. Failure
 There is the greatest practical benefit in
making a few failures early in life.
 T. H. Huxley.

68. Failure
 Failure is more often from want of
energy than want of capital.
 Daniel Webster.

69. Ability
 Ability is of little account without
opportunity.
 Napoleon.

70. Action
 We think according to nature; we speak
according to rules; we act according to
custom.
 Francis Bacon.

71. Action
 He who can, does. He who cannot,
teaches.
 G. B. Shaw.

72. Admiration
 Things not understood are admired.
 Thomas Fuller.

73. Admiration
 We always like those who admire us; we
do not always like those whom we
admire.
 La Rochefoucauld.

74. Anger
 Anyone can become angry- that is easy,
but to be angry with the right person, to
the right degree, at the right time, for the
right purpose, ad in the right way --- that
is not easy.
 Aristotle.

75. Anger
 Be ware the fury of a patient men.
 John Dryden.

76. Appearance
 Men in general judge more from
appearances than from reality. All men
have eyes, but few have the gift of
penetration.
 Machiavelli

77. Belief
 Man prefers to believe what he prefers to
be true.
 Francis Bacon.

78. Past & Present
 The present is breathing in & the past is
exhalation.

79. Humor
 A sense of humor bridges distance
between sadness and joy.

80. Life
 Brighter views of life comes from helping
others.

81. Talent
 Let your talents leave a mark where it is
needed.

82. Today
 Think of each day as a special gift and
unwrap it gratefully.

83. Memories
 Memories connect us to the past and
guide us to the future.

84. Laughter
 Laughter is the best tonic for body, mind
and spirit.

85. Peace
 To find inner peace you must banish
inner despair.

86. Strength
 In silence and solitude lies a great
strength.

87. Peace
 Peace and tranquility are hidden inside
your own heart.

88. Achievement
 Armed with hope and determination you
can achieve any thing.

89. Joy
 Joy is an unexpected by-product of doing
something for someone.

90. Success
 I have failed over and over again in my
life and that’s why I succeed.
 Michael Jordan.

91. Friends
 Friends are the family you choose.
 Jennifer Aniston.

92. Blindness
 Hate and mistrust are the children of
blindness.

93. Vision
 A vision with no action is a dream; an
action with no vision is a nightmare.
 Japanese saying.

94. Bore
 Anyone who is bored on his own is
boring in company.

95. Leader
 A leader takes people where they want to
go. A great leader takes people where
they don’t necessarily want to go.

96. Time
 The most valuable commodity in the
world is time. Like an arrow shot from a
bow, it never returns.

97. Duty
 A duty which becomes a desire will
ultimately become a delight.

98. Quality & Success
 With quality by your side, you will
succeed Worldwide.

99. Hope
 Hope sees the invisible, feels the
intangible and achieves the impossible.

100. Advice
 Advice is like snow. The softer it falls, the
longer it dwells upon and deeper it sinks
into mind.

101. Fun & Success
 You rarely succeed at anything unless
you have fun doing it.

102. Success
 There is no elevator to success. You have
to climb the stairs.

103. Reward
 The reward of a thing well done is to
have done it.

104. Quality
 The race for Quality has no finish line.

105. Success
 Success is a journey, not a destination.

106. Winners
 Winners don’t do different things. They
do things differently.

107. Efficiency & Effectiveness
 Doing things right is efficiency; Doing
right things is effectiveness.

108. Knowledge
 The genuine beauty of acquiring
knowledge is that you can learn any time.

109. Winner
 A winner never quits, a quitter never
wins.

110. Solution
 The first step towards solving a problem
is to begin.

111. Success
 Success comes to those who become
success conscious.

112. Progress
 Restlessness and discontent are the first
necessities of progress.

113. Motivation
 Spark of motivation will fire others to
great heights.

114. Success & Determination
 Some succeed because they are destined
to, but most succeed because they are
determined to.

115. Future
 When all else is lost, future is still there.

116. Work culture
 The beginning is the most important part
of any work.

117. Insight
 A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a
life’s experience.

118. Time
 Time is the greatest innovator.

119. Open mind
 An open mind collects more riches than
an open purse.

120. Smile
 A man without a smiling face, must not
open a shop.

121. Duty
 Ask not what your Country can do for
you, ask what you can do for your
Country.

122. Judgment
 A man should be judged not by his great
qualities, but by the use to which he puts
them.

123. Promise
 Be slow to promise, but be quick to
perform it.

124. Facts
 Facts are stubborn things.

125. Speech & Silence
 Speech is silver, Silence is golden.

126. Values
 Do not be known as a man of success.
Be known as a man of values.

127. Leader
 The prime function of a leader is to keep
the hope alive.

128. Leadership
 Leadership is making people do what
they don’t want to do and liking it.

129. Posture
 Where we stand depends upon where we
sit.

130. Secrecy
 Be wiser than other people if you can, but
do not tell them so.

131. Improvement
 There is one corner of Universe you can
be sure of improving and that is you.

132. Change
 Things do not change, we do.

133. Manners
 Be nice to people on your way up,
because you’ll need them on your way
down.