Quote for the Day

"All celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.""

-- Nepoleon Bonaparte

Thought for the Day

When all you see are shadows, you never see the light...

Thought for the Day

Prayer is the key to heaven, but faith unlocks the door...

Quote for the Day

"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

Quote for the Day

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

-- William James

Thought for the Day

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top...

Quotes on Sachin

"I want my son to become Sachin Tendulkar."
-- Brian Lara(WI)

"We did not lose to a team called India, we lost to a man called Sachin."
-- Mark Taylor (AUS)

"Nothing bad can happen to us if we were on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it."
-- Hashim Amla (SA)

"He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also."
-- Waqar Younis (PAK)

"There are to kind of batsman in the world. 1. Sachin Tendulkar and 2. All the others."
-- Andy Flower (ZIM)

"I have seen God. He bats at No. 4 for India in tests."
-- Matthew Hayden (AUS)

"I see myself when I see Sachin batting."
-- Don Bradman (AUS)

"Do your crime when Sachin is batting, because even God is busy watching his batting."
-- Australian Fan

"I don't know about cricket but still I watch cricket to see Sachin play. Not because I love his play its because I want to know the reason why my country's production goes down by 5 percent when he's in batting."
-- Barack Obama (US)

Quote for the Day

"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail."

-- Benjamin Franklin

Thought for the Day

When you find a dream inside your heart, don't ever let it go, for dreams are the tiny seeds from which beautiful tomorrows grow...

Quote for the Day

"Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed."

-- Mwai Kibaki

Thought for the Day

Marriage is when a man and woman become as one. The trouble starts when they try to decide which one...

Military Words of Wisdom

"Aim towards the enemy."
-- Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher

"When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend."
-- US Marine Corps

"Cluster bombing from B-52's is very, very accurate.  The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground."
-- USAF Ammo Troop

"If the enemy is in range, so are you."
-- Infantry Journal

"A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit."
-- Army's magazine of prevention maintenance

"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed."
-- US Air Force manual

"Try to look unimportant; the enemy may be low on ammo."
-- Infantry Journal

"Tracers work both ways."
-- US Army Ordnance

"Five-second fuses only last three seconds."
-- Infantry Journal

"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."
-- David Hackworth

"If your attack is going too well, you're walking into an ambush."
-- Infantry Journal

"No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection."
-- Joe Gay

"Any ship can be a minesweeper… once."
-- Anon

"Never tell the platoon sergeant you have nothing to do."
-- Unknown Marine Recruit

"Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you."
-- Infantry Journal

"If you see a bomb technician running, try to keep up with him."
-- USAF Ammo Troop

Thought for the Day

The greatest remedy for anger is delay...

Quote for the Day

"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."

-- Mark Twain

Quote for the Day

Focus your energies on doing what you can, rather than worrying about what you can't...

Thought for the Day

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else...

Quote for the Day

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

-- John Quincy Adams

Thought for the Day

Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity...

Quote for the Day

"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first."

-- William Shakespeare

Quote for the Day

"Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination;
Never limit others because of your own limited imagination."

-- Mae Jemison, Astronaut

Thought for the Day

Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath...

Quote for the Day

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

-- Helen Keller

Thought for the Day

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue...

Thought for the Day

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced...

Quote for the Day

"There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward. The thing is to move!"

-- Edgar Cayce

Thought for the Day

Praying is hard; living without it is harder...

Quote for the Day

"Speak softly, but carry a big stick."

-- Teddy Roosevelt

Thought for the Day

Diplomacy is thinking twice and saying nothing...

Quote for the Day

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

-- Albert Einstein

Thought for the Day

Presence is more than just being there. If your absence doesn't make any difference, your presence won't either...

Quote for the Day

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

-- Julie Andrews

Quote for the Day

"Raise your voice and your dignity is lowered."

-- Melchor F Cichon

Thought for the Day

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out...

Quote for the Day

"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously."

-- Charles F Kettering

Thought for the Day

Pray as if everything depended on God;
Act as if everything depended on yourself...

Quote for the Day

"To get joy we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it."

-- John Templeton

Thought for the Day

A great life is born in the soul, grown in the mind, and lived from the heart...

Thought for the Day

You are strong...
When you take your grief and teach others to smile.

You are brave...
When you overcome your fear and help others to do the same.

You are happy ...
When you see a flower and are thankful for the blessing.

You are loving ...
When your own pain does not blind you to the pain of others.

You are wise ...
When you know the limits of your wisdom.

You are true ...
When you admit there are times you fool yourself.

You are alive ...
When tomorrow's hope means more to you than yesterday's mistake.

You are growing ...
When you know what you are but not what you will become.

You are free ...
When you are in control of yourself and do not wish to control others.

You are honorable ...
When you find your honour is to honour others.

You are generous ...
When you can take as sweetly as you can give.

You are humble ...
When you do not know how humble you are.

You are thoughtful ...
When you see me just as I am and treat me just as you are.

You are merciful ...
When you forgive in others the faults you condemn in yourself.

You are beautiful ...
When you don't need a mirror to tell you.

You are rich ...
When you never need more than what you have.

You are you ...
When you are at peace with yourself.

Quote for the Day

"If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent."

-- Sir Isaac Newton

Thought for the Day

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself...

Quote for the Day

"One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck."

-- Carl Zuckmeyer

Thought for the Day

To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue...

Quote for the Day

"I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number."

-- Edith Armstrong

Thought for the Day

In the history of the universe, there has been nobody like you and to the infinity of the time to come, there will be noone like you...

Quote for the Day

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."

-- Nelson Mandela

Thought for the Day

People are made to be loved and things are made to be used. There is much chaos in this world because things are being loved and people are being used...

Quote for the Day

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

-- Indira Gandhi

Thought for the Day

Just because two people argue, doesn't mean they don't love each other and just because they don't argue, doesn't mean they do love each other...

Quote for the Day

"Whatever failures I have known;
Whatever errors I have committed;
Whatever follies I have witnessed in privet & public life;
Have been the consequence of Action Without Thought."

-- SaNa

Thought for the Day

We grow great by dreams...

Quote for the Day

"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip."

-- James M Barrie

Thought for the Day

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from...

Quote for the Day

"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect."

-- Leonardo Da Vinci

Thought for the Day

Learn the wisdom of compromise. It is better to bend a little than to break any relationship forever...

Quote for the Day

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."

-- Charles F Kettering