600.  Only we can protect ourselves. It is our duty towards ourselves that we do not shun this responsibility. Besides, no one can save us against our will.

- Sujit Mukerji

599.  I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

– Dudley Field Malone

598. Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

– Winston Churchill

597. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

596. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

595. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

594. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas A Edison

593. Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.

– Joe Clark

592. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

– Lao Tzu

591. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

– Josiah Gilbert Holland

590. A leader gives encouragement, doesn’t seek it.

- Sujit Mukerji

589. Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

588. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.        

- Mark Twain

587. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

- Mahatma Gandhi

586. Winning isn’t everything but wanting to win is.

– Vince Lombardi.

585. Good things come to those who wait … Greater things come to those who act.

584. Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

- Corrie Boom

583. If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.

- Flavia

582. If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.

– Mary Pickford

581. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

– Oprah Winfrey

580. Let moderation be the watch-word.

- Sujit Mukerji

579. Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you and incite constructive criticism.

– Andrew Stanton

578. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

– Stephen Covey

577. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

– Joshua J. Marine

576. It is not enough to aim, you must hit.

575. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

– Carl Bard

574. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

– Lao Tzu

573. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

- Don Marquis

572. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

- Margaret Mead

571. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

– Dennis P. Kimbro

570. Achievers are often described as lucky. But what about the years of toil?

- Sujit Mukerji

569. Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

- Theodore Roosevelt

568. Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

- Sam Levenson

567. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

- Ayn Rand

566. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas A. Edison

565. Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

- Willie Nelson

564. Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

563. Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.

- Allen Klein

562. You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

- Albert Einstein

561. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

- Confucius

560.  The rising sun is admired and even worshipped by some but the setting sun may, at the most, be admired but never worshipped.

- Sujit Mukerji

559. A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.

- Lao Tzu

558. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. 

- Erick S. Gray

557. Anything with scales counts as a fish.

556. Even monkeys fall out of trees.

555. No one goes through life unscathed.

554. Nothing is black or white.

553. The price of your hat is not always the measure of your brain.

552. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

- Oscar Wilde

551. Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

- Ben Franklin

550. It is a tragedy when care for closer ties is thrown to the winds if and when there is a clash of interest.

- Sujit Mukerji

549. Life is a journey, not a destination.

548. Even the best laid plans go awry.

547. The best way to predict the future is to create it.

546. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

- Wayne Dyer

545.  It is your responsibility to make your world work for you.

- Ashok Subramanian

544. I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy – I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.

- Art Williams

543. Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

- Thomas Jefferson

542. Life is not so important as the duties of life.

- John Randolph

541. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

- Henry Ford

540. The lonely sun has to burn itself out, the mountains have to melt, the air has to be on the move and undergo changes and the earth has to suffer ordeals so that life can continue. And, such is the destiny of Samaritans.

- Sujit Mukerji

539. Life is not a dress rehearsal.

538. No man can lose what he never had.

- George Herbert

537. All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

- Alexandre Dumas

536. The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

- Democritus

535. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

534. Life is what you make it.

533. In a crisis, give help first and then advice.

- Aesop

532. Every man has to seek his own way to make himself more noble and to realize his own true worth.

-Albert Schweitzer

531. Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

- Ramana Maharshi

530. Beware of any sudden change in behaviour.

- Sujit Mukerji

529. Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.

- Mary Anne Redmacher

528. To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

527. Plan your life like you will live forever, and live your life like you will die the next day.

526. The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

- Carl Jung

525. We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

- Jonathan Swift

524. Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.

- Sallust

523. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

- Peter Drucker

522. Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

- Ramana Maharshi

521. Wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past. 

520. To appreciate beauty, stop analyzing;

To get to the truth, start analyzing.

- Sujit Mukerji

519. What is true by lamplight is not always true in sunlight.

518. Wherever you go, you can't get rid of yourself.

517. Sometimes, less is more.

- William Shakespeare

516. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

515. Don’t do something permanently stupid just because you are temporarily upset.

514.  If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

- George Bernard Shaw

513. He who is different from me does not impoverish me – he enriches me.

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

512. He that respects himself is safe from others.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

511. Don't judge of men's wealth or piety by their Sunday appearances.

- Ben Franklin

510. The journey to the final results is usually long and painful.

- Sujit Mukerji

509. He who flees at the right time can fight again.

- Marcus Trentius Varro

508. Better slip with foot than tongue.

- Ben Franklin

507. When you say one thing, the clever person understands three.

506. When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

- Confucious

505. When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

- Winston S Churchill

504. You can't make bricks without straw.

503. It is wise not to seek a secret and honest not to reveal it.

- Ben Franklin

502. Truth can pass through three stages:

1. It can be ridiculed;

2. It can be violently opposed;

3. And, finally, it can be/is accepted as being self-evident.

501. Just because everybody's doing something, doesn't mean it's right.

500. The sun can’t see what is in the shadows. So, the most powerful also has some limitations. Certain facts stay hidden, even from the most powerful, until they are dug out. One at the top can’t see the goings-on at the grass-root level. To know, one has to come down.

- Sujit Mukerji

499. The wise do as much as they should, not as much as they can.

498. The errors of a wise man make your rule rather than the perfections of a fool.

- William Blake

497. The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others.

496. Justice is truth in action.

- Benjamin Disraeli

495. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

494. Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hands with a grip that kills it.

- Rabindranath Tagore

493. Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to gather.

492. Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted.

491. A new broom sweeps clean but an old broom knows the corners. 

- Virgin Islander

490. The ship has to decide its course regardless of the wind’s direction.

- Sujit Mukerji

489. Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own.

488. It is easier to criticize than to do better.

487. One should speak little with others and much with oneself.

486. Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

485. Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

484. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. Now put the foundations under them.

-         Henry David Thoreau

483. Put a silk on a goat and it is still a goat.

482. Wisdom is of times nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

- William Wordsworth

481. A blind person who sees is better than a seeing person who is blind.

480. Even the sun’s worshippers look away during its eclipse. Others admire it!

- Sujit Mukerji

479. It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

- W Edwards Deming

478. The prudent embark when the sea is calm - the rash when the sea is stormy.

- Maori

477. Eggs have no business dancing with stones.

- Haitian

476. Sleeping people can't fall down.

475. Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance. Fame is nothing. Openness is everything.

-         Rainer Maria Rilke

474. Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

- Ben Franklin

473. Beware the person with nothing to lose.

472. Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

471. When the moon is full, it begins to wane.

470. If someone hurts me, I will not take revenge because it could be unintentional. Even if it is on purpose, it will mean such is his nature which, obviously, will not change and he is bound to be so with others too. Naturally, one day he will be paid back with the same coin by someone else so inclined. So, why should I waste my time and energy and soil my hands?

- Sujit Mukerji

469. Measure a thousand times; cut once.

468. Beware of the fury of a patient man.

- John Dryden

467. He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

-Ben Franklin

466. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

465. When you are finished changing, you are finished

- Benjamin Franklin

464. Whoever has a tail of straw should not get too close to the fire.

463. The eagle was killed with an arrow made with its own feathers.

462. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a moulder of consensus.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

461. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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460. Those of us who are able to optimally use our resources turn out to be smarter than the others.

- Sujit Mukerji

459. Easy does it.

- T. Taylor

458. Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.

457. The anger of the prudent never shows.

456. Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.

455. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you, you have to win it.

-         Ralph Waldo Emerson

454. You never know what lies right around the corner.

453. It's an ill wind that blows no good.

- John Heywood

452. The leopard does not change his spots.

– William Shakespeare

451. Little leaks sink the ship.

- Ben Franklin

450. One sees nothing, the second sees what comes to the fore while the third also sees what is beyond and reads between the lines too … who is the smart one?

- Sujit Mukerji

449. MIGHTY UNITY

- daughter, Josheca Mukerji

One of the great freedom fighters, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s birthday – Oct 31 – has been declared as ‘Unity Day’ from this year. ‘Unity’ is such a short word, so easy to spell, and this word is used so often, but who is really united? Everybody seems to care about his/her own desires and go against everybody else. One is too keen to fulfill one’s own wishes even at the cost of sacrificing the feeling of unity. In such an era like this, it has really been a great step to declare a day, that too such a great day (a luminary’s birthday) as National Unity Day.

Now, it is time for me to relive this Unity Day which we celebrated in our school. We had the heaven-sent opportunity to be able to spread the   message of unity. We rallied around the school trying to spread the message of unity. Some were holding placards, others were just walking. We were really united that day. Everyone seemed to have the same kind of emotions. We rallied around and came back to the school campus hoping that our efforts had been fruitful. We spent the rest of the time in the school engaged in certain other activities such as collage making etc. That was indeed a very great day. I don’t know about anyone else but, at least, I understood the importance of unity.

It would be so good if everyone remains united forever. One thing is assured that if everyone is united, no power can cause any disturbance however mighty that power may be. That is to say, no power is mightier than unity itself. It would indeed be very good if we do not treat this unity as a utopian concept but see it happening. It would be so good to see everyone stand, walk or run for unity. If we are united, our progress will be much easier and faster and we will come out from the dark dungeons of our lives, thereby ensuring a more blissful state.

Surely, “united we stand and divided we fall”. Everyone seems so busy in falling and getting up that there is no time left to stand. But the day is bound to come when ‘unity’ shall be shouted in a united manner.

448. Nothing, even the most appealing, can be perfect.

- daughter, Josheca Mukerji

447. The second word makes the quarrel.

446. Keep no more cats than will catch mice.

- J. Dare

445. Come what may, time and hour runs through the roughest day.

- William Shakespeare

444. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

- John Philpot Curran

443. Fish don't get caught in deep water.

- Malay

442. Pleasing ware is half sold.

- George Herbert

441. I have always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

-         John D Rockefeller

440. A resolutely conscientious would go out of his way to ensure justice to all.

- Sujit Mukerji

439. Only a fool has to be told everything (yet, perhaps, to no/not much avail).

- daughter, Josheca Mukerji

438. Only a fool tests the water with both feet.

437. The fewer the words the shorter the quarrel.

436. If you buy what you don't need, you steal from yourself.

435. Anger is a short madness.

- Horace

434. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

- William Butler Yeats

433. If you call one wolf, you invite the pack.

432. One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.

- Aesop

431. A man should never be ashamed to admit that he is in the wrong – which is but saying in other words that – “He is wiser today than yesterday”.

- Jonathan Swift

430. We forget that people may be of the same or more or less IQ level and that makes things more difficult.

- Sujit Mukerji

429. As the sun's shadow shifts, so there is no permanence on earth.

428. At high tide, fish eat ants; at low tide, ants eat fish.

427. Better the devil you know than the one you don't.

- R. Taverner

426. Be ever vigilant but never suspicious.

425. The honey is sweet but the bee has a sting.

- Ben Franklin

424. If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

423. The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

422. Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

-         Aristotle

421. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.