Boldness

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
Goethe

spirituality

Spirituality must be integrated with education. Self-realization is the focus. Each one of us must become aware of our higher self. We are links of a great past to a grand future. We should ignite our dormant inner energy and let it guide our lives.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, President of India

progress /irrational

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard ShawIrish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950

liberty

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard ShawIrish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

do unto others

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists

circumstances

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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, "Mrs. Warren's Profession"

dreams

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw

thinking

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard ShawIrish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

patriotism

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard ShawIrish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

adaptability

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Mahatma GandhiIndian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948

freedom

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma GandhiIndian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)

change

You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma GandhiIndian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)

credit for work

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
Indira GandhiIndian politician (1917 - 1984)

formal education

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert EinsteinUS (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

religion

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert EinsteinUS (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

imagination

Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert EinsteinUS (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

faith

"When you come to the edge of all the light you know and you are about to step off in the darkness of the unknown, faith knows one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly." Anonymous

choice

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.
Ayn Rand, Atlas ShruggedUS (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982)

being

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
Ayn Rand, Anthem, 1946US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982)