Quotes

ü “Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.” – Swami Vivekananda

ü “Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful” – Gautama Buddha

ü “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” – Gautama Buddha

ü “Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.” – Gautama Buddha

ü The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure. – Gautama Buddha

ü “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” ― John F. Kennedy, 35th US President

ü “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

ü “You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.” – Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam

ü “Be so busy improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.” – Chetan Bhagat

ü “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall come easily by what others have laboured hard for.”– Socrates, Greek Philosopher

ü  “Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” – Rabindranath Tagore

ü “All Birds find shelter during rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above clouds.” – Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

ü “All of us do not have equal talent. But, all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.” – Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam

ü “If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.”  – Indra Nooyi (Chairperson and CEO, PepsiCo)

ü “Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself. After you become a leader, success is about growing others.” – Jack Welch (CEO, General Electric)

ü “Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job.” – Jim Rohn, American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker

ü “Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do.”  –Bruce Lee, Hong Kong Martial Artist & Actor

ü “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” – Albert Einstein

ü “Listen to many, speak to a few.” – William Shakespeare

ü “Observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence.” – J. Krishnamurti Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian Philosopher

ü “It is the province of knowledge to speak. And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

ü “Most of the people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They are either speaking or preparing to speak”. – Stephan R Covey, Author and VC of Franklin Covey Co

ü “Very often at the source of leadership failure is a lack of listening, a disconnect on what’s really going on right now” –  Otto Scharmer, Senior lecturer (MIT)

ü “The most important think in communication is hearing what is not said” – Peter Durker, Author, and Management Consultant

ü “If you cannot listen to yourself, how will you ever be able to listen another person” – Marshall Goldsmith, Executive coach

ü “The more you subsume your desire to shine, the more you will shine in the other person’s eye” – Marshal Goldsmith, Executive coach