• Begin the day with thanks giving and a prayer to God.
• Get organized. Plan the day.
• Live in the Present. The time to act is HERE & NOW.
• Make the best use of available TIME/MONEY/ENERGY.
• Do your duty without giving a damn to its results.
• Think positively. Keep in your mind’s eye the image of what you want be.
• Be yourself. Maintain your freedom and dignity.
• Remain calm, cool, collected and cheerful under the worst of circumstances. Ignore what appears to you to be unpleasant, petty, low or mean.
• Keep a low profile and hold your tongue. Avoid confrontations and controversies.
• Speak less, listen, think and observe more.
• Keep learning and updating your knowledge and skills.
• Make no compromise on basic values of life like TRUTH/HONESTY/INTEGRITY etc.
• Count what you have without fretting over what you do not have.
• Live within your means & save something for the rainy day.
• Mind your own business. Do not get involved in others’ affairs.
• Accept what is beyond your control. Adjust, readjust to cope with the inevitable.
• Have a personal health plan and follow it.
• Consider yourself accountable to God and your Conscience.

By Bharat Bhooshan

by Bharat Bhooshan

• Lives of great man all remind us,
  we can make our lives sublime,
  and departing, leave behind us,
  footprints on the sands of time.
• Hitch your wagon to a star.
• Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
• Be a creator… not a creature of your circumstances.
• The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.
• Constant dripping wears away the stones.
• Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
• The woods are lovely, dark and deep But I’ve promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
• The man afraid of being drowned, cannot learn swimming.
• Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is to you.
• We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hopes.
• When you hit bottom, that’s when you can start on your way up, with God’s help.
• Life can be destroyed but not defeated.
• Do not think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what you have.
• Genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration.
• If opportunities don’t knock, build a door.
• Kites are highest against the wind, not with it.
• How good is man’s life the mere living !
• The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
• God helps those who help themselves.
• The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
• In the middle of every difficulty, lies an opportunity.
• Starve the problems, feed the opportunities.
• Defeat is not the worst of failures, not to have tried is the true failure.
• When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
• Obstacles in the pathway of the weak become stepping-stones in the pathway of the strong.
• The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

LEADERSHIP, SUCCESS & EXCELLENCE

• The good leaders do not order push or demand, they guide lead and inspire.
• Give people room to grow and they will stay with you.
• If you wish to manage others, first manage yourself.
• A leader is a dealer in hope.
• The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
• If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
• Success with people lies in love for people.
• The less you talk, the more you are listened to.
• If you wish to convince a man that he is wrong, you do right. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
• The price of greatness is responsibility.
• You’ll please more people by listening to them than by talking to them.
• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
• A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
• Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
• Unjust criticism is often a disguised compliment. No one kicks a dead dog.
• You never get a second chance to make the first good impression.
• One of the best ways to reduce stress is to get organized.
• Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
• First thing first and one thing at a time.
• A place for everything and everything in its place.
• Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
• Practice makes a man perfect.
• The reward of a thing well done is to have done it well.
• Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
• Even wrong decisions work out for our good, if they help us make wiser decisions in the future.
• Unless you have competitive advantage, don’t compete
• The four Cs – competence, commitment, consistence and confidence – can empower anyone become unstoppable and compelling.
• Never go for short-term profits to the detriment of your long-term reputation.
• You’ll never ‘find‘ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
• An hour’s less sleep per day will add five years to your working life.
• Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
• Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
• Be sure your goal is right, for if it isn’t, it’s wrong, and nothing wrong ever turns out right.
• Stay focused on your goal, not your immediate problems.
• The best way to make your dream come true is to wake up.
• The secret of success is to do common jobs uncommonly well.
• A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.
• Success is the result of unrelenting labour.

PLANNING, WORK & ACTION

• The harder you work, the luckier you get.
• Work is prayer.
• He who labours diligently need never despair, for all things are accomplished by diligence and labour.
• One grand business in life is not to see what lies at distance, but to what clearly lies at the hand.
• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
• Work keeps us from three evils: boredom, vice and need.
• Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
• What one man can do another can do.
• Procrastination makes every thing hard, hard things harder.
• The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
• A small good is better than a good intention.

LEARNING, KNOWLEDGE & EDUCATION

• Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.
• You will learn more about road by traveling it than consulting all the maps in the world.
• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
• While we teach, we learn.
• Learn by listening, understand by reflecting.
• Knowledge is power.
• There is no education like adversity.
• The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than fill it with accumulation of others.
• The best and the most important part of every man’s education is which he gives himself.
• To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
• Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
• Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability.
• Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
• Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
• A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured on purpose to a life beyond life.
• A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
• Competence is a unique combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes and can not be taught at a business school.
• Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.
• Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words; be as one that knoweth and yet holdeth his tongue.

THINKING, MIND & ATTITUDE

• Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.
• What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
• An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
• The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
• You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
• As you change your thoughts towards people, people change towards you.
• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
• The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
• The things that a man does not say often reveal the understanding and penetration of his mind even more than the things that he says.
• When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
• While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
• We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
• Thought, like all potent weapons, is exceedingly dangerous if mishandled. Clear thinking is therefore desirable not only in order to develop the full potentialities of the mind, but also to avoid disaster.

LIFE, HAPPINESS & WISDOM

• The best portion of a good man’s life his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
• To make your life count, spend it on things that count.
• Hurry up and start living well, with the thoughts that each day is a life unto itself.
• What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for all of us.
• Life teaches us to be less harsh with others and ourselves.
• The business of life is to go forward.
• We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.
• While there’s life, there is hope.
• A useless life is an early death.
• A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
• It matters not how long we live, but how we live.
• The value of a man’s life is defined not by what he owns, but what owns him.
• As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.
• Happiness isn’t a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow; it’s stopping to enjoy the rainbow.
• Happiness is not in doing what you like; but in liking what you do.
• No joy compares the joy of doing one’s duty quietly.
• You don’t stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing.
• Laugh and the world laughs with you weep, and you weep alone.
• Look a little pleasanter – it is something to work from within.
• Have more than thou showest speak less than thou knowest lend less than thou owest.
• A smile is one of God’s special gifts to mankind.
• Fear of death is worse than death itself.
• Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
• The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
• Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
• One stops being a child when one realises that telling one’s troubles does not make it better.
• Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.
• We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust our sails.
• Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
• It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
• In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
• Advice is seldom welcome; and those who need it the most always dislike it the most.
• The heaviest thing you can carry is a grudge.
• A wise man conceals his intelligence, the fool displays his ignorance.
• He who loses his conscience, has nothing left that is worth keeping.
• The reason most people do not like to hear the story of your troubles is that they have a big flock of their own.
• Cowards die many times before their death. The valiant never taste of death but once.
• Some of the saddest words ever spoken or written are; “It might have been”, “I should have”, “I could have”, “I wish I had”. “If only had given a little extra”.
• What we really are matters more than what others think of us.
• Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he will never be disappointed.
• Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgives revenge and dare to forgive an injury.
• The wise man thinks before acting and the fool thinks after it.
• The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
• The fire you kindle for your enemy burns yourself more than him.
• Write injuries in sand and kindness in marble.
• If winter comes, can spring be far behind ?
• The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
• Calumnies are answered best with silence.
• If I have made one being happier, one creature more comfortable, one heart more hopeful, my day has not been wasted.
• When angry count ten before you speak, if very angry, one hundred.
• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
• The best armour is to keep out of range.

FRIENDSHIP & LOVE

• The real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
• A friend is a person who knows all about you and still likes you.
• One friend in life is much, two are many, three are hardly possible.
• Friendship improves happiness and abates miseries by doubling our joy and dividing our griefs.
• That friendship cannot continue to the end which is begun for an end.
• A man should keep his friendship in constant repair
• One who looks for friends without faults will have none.
• Take away love and earth is a tomb.
• Love is a miracle; it is a touch of heaven.
• Love conquers all.
• Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
• I know of only one duty and that is to love.
• Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’
• One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
• Unconditional love is the greatest gift anyone can give or receive.
• Do not be afraid of looking to the point of sacrifice until it hurts.
• Since everything is energy and love encompasses all energies, all is love.

VIRTUE, GOODNESS & NOBILITY

• Prosperity doth best discover vice but adversity doth best discover virtue.
• Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
• Honesty is always the best policy and truth, the best protection.
• Integrity means living up to the best of yourself.
• An honest man is the noblest work of God.
• In all things it is better to hope than despair.
• You are what you are when nobody is looking.
• If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shews he is a citizen of the world.
• Truth alone triumphs.
• How poor are they who have no patience! What wound did ever heal but by degree.
• The fragrance of a rose always stays with the hand that gives the rose.
• Silence is golden.
• My strength is the strength of ten Because my heart is pure.
• A man without patience is a lamp without oil.
• Have a good healthy faith in yourself – you are greater than you think.
• The home is the chief school of human virtues.
• Virtue itself is its own fairest reward.

GOD, FAITH & PRAYER

• Let God guide when trouble comes He will never let you down; God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.
• Faith does not believe that God can. But that God will.
• Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible.
• Faith is not belief without proof but trust without reservations.
• The family that prays together stays together.
• God will forgive me.. It’s his profession.
• Nothing is going to happen to me today, O Lord, that you and I, together, can’t handle!
• Pray to God but keep rowing to the shore.
• Every evening I turn worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway.
• Lord, not my will, but Thine be done.
• God first, God last, God always, God alone.

from the book "Noble Thoughts of Noble Minds"
by Bharat Bhooshan

What you must Learn

• There is no shortcut to success; that if it comes, it comes only through hard work, honesty, integrity and credibility besides confidence, commitment, competence and consistency.
• No pursuit is better than the pursuit of excellence; it is for this alone that you have been brought to this earth and made to pass through the cycle of birth and rebirth.
• You should depend more and more on your own resources, and less and less on others for achieving your goals. You can rely only on only one person in this vast universe - and that is YOU!
• Your own attitude towards yourself, to a large extent, determines the attitude of others towards you; for instance, if you don’t respect yourself, nobody else will.
• Inspiration or motivation to achieve anything big in life must come from within or from God. If you depend on others for this, you may face a complete vacuum when they back out, and often they do!
• While it is always good to be positive and hope for the best, you should also be prepared to face the worst since nothing in this world is certain.
• Keeping cool, i.e. maintaining the equilibrium of your mind in the face of any provocation, opposition, suffering and pain, is an achievement one can be proud of.
• It never pays to get into argument, to criticize, condemn, tease or reprimand or humiliate others or even give them unsought advice: all this makes more enemies than friends!
• It is better to concentrate your energies on changing and reforming yourself rather than changing or reforming others.
• A lot of conflicts, clashes and confrontations can be averted by a little tact, understanding, tolerance and patience; you should stop being emotional and sentimental and overreacting to unpleasant situations.
• Despite selfishness, intolerance, vanity and ingratitude all around, you should not lose basic faith in the goodness of humanity; is imperative for you to be tolerant and patient and maintain at least workable relationship with others in your own interest!
• Since people are more interested in themselves than in others, it is better not to talk about your own plans, goals and achievements; this will only make them bored or jealous!
• Since today’s friends can be tomorrow’s enemies, it is never safe for you to share your secrets with others.
• It is always in your interest to be generous, kind and forgiving; that carrying grudge, and the feelings of hurt, resentment and anger does you more harm than others.
• It is more satisfying to be giving rather than receiving; if you have no money to give or the things that it can buy; give others your labour of love, thoughts, good wishes and prayers, which are equally precious.
• It is always better to keep a low profile and lead a simple life rather than indulging in self - display or show biz; it only leads to unhealthy competition and jealousy.
• You have all the right to hold your convictions and beliefs but that you should avoid airing them before the unappreciative audience to avoid the possibility of getting into unnecessary controversies.
• Every thing that comes your way, however unpleasant, is for your good; that you should accept it as part of the bigger Divine plan.
• Despite their professions of friendship and love, people are with you only so long as you serve their needs; they seldom hesitate in deserting you once their needs are fulfilled or, in their judgment, cannot be fulfilled through you any more!
• While everyone else may walk out of your life for one reason or the other; it is God who always stands by you and if remembered with absolute faith, takes no time to come to your rescue.

Adapted from the book "Some Lessons Learnt From Life"
by Bharat Bhooshan