Education

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. 

~Albert Einstein~

Tolerance, universal brotherhood and peace

Islam teaches tolerance, not

hatred; universal

brotherhood, not enmity; peace,

and not violence.

Pervez Musharraf

A pessimist and an optimist

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

new horizons

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” – William Faulkner

Believe you can

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevel

improvement, achievement, and success

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” 

— Benjamin Franklin

Lead, Follow, or get out of the way

Man is a wonderful creature

Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib - Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation) 

- "Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue)."

Be generous

Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib - Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation) 

- "Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly."

Your personality

Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.

Shawn Ashmore

Be yourself

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Bruce Lee

Everybody can be great

“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” 
― Martin Luther King Jr.

Mother Teresa

“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.” 
― Mother Teresa

Meaning of Life

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

Tolerance

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Voltaire

Humanity

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Human rights

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

Pope Francis