Some Quotes

1. You don’t drown by falling in the water.  You drown by staying there.
2. You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.
3. It’s better to know and be disappointed than to never know and always wonder.
4. Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.
5. When you choose to see the good in others, you end up finding the good in yourself.
6. If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past.  If you lie, it becomes a part of your future.
7. When you’re up, your friends know who you are.  When you’re down, you know who your friends are.
8. Don’t look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.
9. Love and appreciate your parents.  We are often so busy growing up, we forget they are also growing old.
10. When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it’s probably time to change the people around you.
11. If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you’re fooling yourself. That’s like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

Quotes for Us

1. What defines us is how well we rise after falling.
2. Expect nothing and you will never be disappointed.
3. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
4. A champion was once a contender who refused to give up.
5. Stupid is a person who knows truth but still believe the lies.
6. You are given this life because you are strong enough to live it.
7. A wise person knows that there is something to be learned from everyone.
8. The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.
9. If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
10. Never give up on a dream just because of the time i will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
11. When you finally realize that nothing is permanent in this life, you will become more tolerant, more forgiving and less judgmental.

Life Lessons Learnt 90 Years Ago

1. Save for things that matter.
2. Life is too short not to enjoy it.
3. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
4. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.
5. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
6. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.
7. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.
8. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.
9. You don’t have to win every argument. Stay true to yourself.
10. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will.
11. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

Quotes on Corruption

1. Corruption hates what is not corrupt.
2. Corruption is the flesh that covers every bone.
3. A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
4. The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
5. Corrupt people are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.
6. Corruption is authority plus monopoly minus transparency.
7. Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
8. No nation will run away from corruption when the devil is the kingmaker.
9. Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible.
10. Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within.
11. Corruption is a hard cane that beats hard on a nation with deaf ears.

Quotes on Protest

In the wake of protesting Pakistan

1. Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
2. If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
3. One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
4. It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.
5. To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
6. Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
7. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
8. Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
9. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
10. Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
11. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Attitude Quotes

1. The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
2. Staying positive is one of the hardest fights.
3. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
4. To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
5. Don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
6. To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
7. Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health.
8. The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude.
9. A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. 
10. Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
11. My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.

Quotes on Philosophy

At the eve of World Philosophy Day

By celebrating World Philosophy Day each year, on the third Thursday of November, UNESCO underlines the enduring value of philosophy for the development of human thought, for each culture and for each individual.

1. Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
2. Philosophy is nothing but common sense in a dress suit.
3. Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
4. We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
5. Philosophy is just a hobby.  You can't open a philosophy factory.
6. Get married, in any case.  If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.
7. The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
8. The natural philosophers are mostly gone.  We modern scientists are adding too many decimals.
9. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.  Take which you please - you can never have both.
10. Philosophy is a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. 
11. Philosophy begins in wonder.  And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Married People's Smiles

1. Me and my wife lived happily for twenty years and then we met.
2. If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
3. All men are brave. Horror movies don't scare them, But 5 missed calls from wife surely.
4. All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
5. When a couple is arguing over who loves who more, the one that gives up is the real winner.
6. My wife told me the other day that I don't take her to expensive places anymore, so I took her to the gas station.
7. Marriage is the bond between a person who never remembers anniversaries and another who never forgets them.
8. If you want to change the world, do it when you are a bachelor. After marriage, you can't even change a TV channel.
9. Listening to wife is like reading the terms and conditions of website. You understand nothing, still you agreed.
10. The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. 
11. Chess is the only game in the world, which reflects the status of the husband. The poor King can take only one step at a time, while the mighty Queen can do whatever she likes.

Quotes by Imam Hussain AS

1. Man of pious heart is always bold.
2. Experience enhances the intellect.
3. Man at fault is always worried & in chaos.
4. We ought to have trust in Allah in all affairs.
5. Never wish to have a return better than your action.
6. Person having His support stands free of all terrestrial.
7. Life resembles lengthening shadows; only fools depend thereon.
8. Do not be pleased for anything except achieving divine guidance.
9. Desirous of worldly delights! You must know all these delights are mortal
10. Do not waste your time over anything you are not fit to have for yourself.
11. Beggar stakes his prestige by begging. Do not stain your personality by refusing him.

Quotes on Happiness

1. To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
2. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
3. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
4. Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
5. Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.
6. There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
7. The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
8. There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
9. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
10. To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
11. It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. 

Desire Quotes

1. Let your inner desire lead your way out to the destination.
2. Patience and faith in your goals can help you to achieve what you desire.
3. Believe in yourself, Trust in God. You possess the inner drive to accomplish all of your desires.
4. Don't deny yourself of the things you want, because what is denied, becomes strongly desired.
5. Never let the fear stop you before you even start, because your destiny is to became what you desire.
6. Every Morning is the opportunity to rise with more power, more determination and achieve what you desire.
7. It's not about having the skill to do something. It's about having the will, desire & commitment to be your best.
8. Moving forward in life and believe in yourself irrespective of any problems is the only way to achieve what you desire.
9. Appreciate the beauty you see everyday, invent what you desire to see and enjoy the fantasies you love to imagine.
10. You call it love, I call it the desire to conquer every obstacle that life throws our way while we discover ourselves and grow old.
11. It's when we're in pains and temptations that God desires us most. For those are times when the devil wants to take us away from Him.

Women's Day Quotes

1. Women are the real architects of society.
2. Women are made to be loved, not understood.
3. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
4. In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
5. Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
6. If you want something said, ask a man, if you want something done, ask a woman.
7. I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
8. A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
9. Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse.
10. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off.
11. Despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer the great question that has never been answered, what does a woman want? 

Loneliness Quotes

1. Loneliness is a for of distrust?
2. Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
3. Loneliness is about the scariest thing there is.
4. Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
5. When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.
6. The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
7. Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
8. Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
9. Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
10. With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
11. Loneliness accepted becomes a gift leading one from a life dominated by tears to the discovery of one's true self and finally to the heart of longing and the love of God.

Quotes for Free

1. A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.
2. The Aim of an Argument should not be victory, but progress.
3. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
4. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
5. Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
6. When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
7. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
8. If you care at all, you'll get some results. If you care enough, you'll get incredible results.
9. A liberal being is a one who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
10. Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
11. You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Eleven Life Experiences

1. Every moment is an experience.
2. High expectations are the key to everything.
3. To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
4. Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
5. Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
6. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
7. You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
8. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
9. Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.
10. The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
11. The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

Quotes on Rain

1. Those who hate rain hate life.
2. Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
3. Rain Adds value to life as life was created from water.
4. Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.
5. Rain within limits is a blessing and beyond limited is a curse.
6. I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.
7. Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
8. Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.
9. Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing.
10. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such an amazing thing that rains starts singing with me.
11. The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can't move.

Quotes on Democracy

1.  Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. Alan Corenk
2. If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. Aristotle
3. The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. Art Spander
4. Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. Clement Atlee
5. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. EB White
6. Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw
7. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw
8. The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. Gustave
9. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. HL Mencken
10. Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. HL Mencken
11. The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment. Jeff Melvoin

Quotes on Politics

Whenever a politician makes a move, people go into a frenzy trying to decode the real motive. Analysts try to 'read' the situation, foreign media manipulate the story, and people react without full information. A politician has to tread carefully and escape these political land mines. Present situation in Pakistan forced me to bring these quotes to the readers.

1. Politics is the art of the possible. Otto Von Bismarck
2. In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte
3. Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies. Dalton Camp
4. A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. Texas Guinan
5. Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. Mao Tse-Tung
6. In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. Charles de Gaulle
7. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Aesop
8. The political machine triumphs because it is united minority acting against a divided majority. Will Durant
9. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. Nikita Krushchev
10. Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. Aristotle
11. Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -- and both commonly succeed, and are right. H. L. Mencken

Quotes on Slavery

United Nations has declared today i.e. 2rd August 2014 as International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition. I thought I must bring some Famous Quotes on Slavery for folks to remind that FREEDOM is essence of LIFE so enjoy it fully and pray for freedom of those who are still slaves in 21st Century. 

1. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
2. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
3. Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
4. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
5. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
6. The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.
7. Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
8. Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
9. The history of the slave trade tells not only of the suffering endured but also of the ultimately victorious struggle for freedom and human rights
10. To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.
11. As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. 

Quotes for Pakistanies

1. Life isn't a promise; it's a present
2. Be nice. And if you can't do that, just don't be mean.
3. A person who feels appreciated will always do more than what is expected.
4. New things always have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.
5. Never base your life decisions on advice from people who don't have to deal with the result.
6. Anyone who sees only the bright side but not the difficulties cannot fight effectively achieves the set goals.
7. Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.
8. In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.
9. We stand for self-reliance. We depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people, who together form the nation.
10. You must thoroughly clear away all ideas among your colleagues of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood.
11. The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow Islam and participate actively in solving problems instead of evading them, there will be no difficulty in the world which they cannot overcome.

Quotable Sayings

1. Often those who aren’t the easiest to love are the ones who need it the most.
2. Dreams are not what you see in sleep. They are the things that do not let you sleep.
3. Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
4. Love is the supreme expression of life, it is the essence and ground of all creation.
5. You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying over the future.
6. Spend some time in solitude; you will discover your limitations. Try to convert them into your strength.
7. People often say that motivation does not last. Well, neither does bathing – that's why we recommend it daily.
8. Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
9. If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
10. For every minute you are angry with someone, you lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back.
11. Even the most fundamental beliefs about reality are not true in themselves. Our thinking makes them true in our experience.

Humorous Quotes

1. Laugh at your problems, everybody else does.
2. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
3. I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
4. He who smiles in a crisis has found someone to blame.
5. The shinbone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.
6. The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!
7. If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of payments.
8. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
9. A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
10. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman
11. A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.

Touching Quotes

1. Falling in love is not a choice.  To stay in love is.
2. It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
3. Saying someone is ugly doesn't make you any prettier.
4. Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
5. Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.
6. If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
7. Don’t choose the one who is beautiful to the world; choose the one who makes your world beautiful.
8. True love isn't about being inseparable; it’s about two people being true to each other even when they are separated.
9. While you’re busy looking for the perfect person, you’ll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.
10. Giving up doesn't always mean you’re weak, sometimes it means you are strong enough and smart enough to let go and move on.
11. Making a hundred friends is not a miracle.  The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.

Some Quotes for You

1. Positive encouragement works better than criticism.
2. Don't ruin a good today by thinking about a bad yesterday.
3. Never lose hope. You never know what tomorrow may bring.
4. I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
5. Every wrong person teaches the right lesson. Be thankful to them.
6. Never underestimate the power of planting a seed of truth in a fertile mind.
7. Time Passes, Memories fade, feelings change, people leave but hearts never forget.
8. One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
9. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
10. Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
11. An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. When life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means it's going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming.