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Can we share some motivational quotes or 'Thought of the day' here?

In these difficult times, us, the aspirants must be loosing tracks and getting demotivated. To pump up and get everyone stoked, we can share some motivational quotes here.
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I trained myself in the school of self control and self denial. It was hard on me but I would rather be my own tyrant than have others tyrannize me.

- JD Rockefeller
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BE THAT ONE !!

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na ham-safar na kisi ham-nashin se niklega 

hamare paanv ka kanta hamin se niklega.

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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

- R Niebuhr

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Google her

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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

- Hermann Hesse

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We learn from Pollard that it isnt about winning. I think we come to the track because the act of defying our fears and venturing something, even if its lost, is liberating.

Perhaps like Red(Pollard), we are all fools for joining in this riskiest of games. But perhaps, in some small way, we are all more alive for it.

- Laura Hillenbrand in Seabiscuit

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The worst mistake you can make is to give up on yourself and stop challenging yourself for fear of failure. 

Keep moving forward with a firm eye on the future, telling yourself - "I will start from today"!

I will start afresh from now, this very moment! 

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“The secret to your success is found in your daily routine.”

John C. Maxwell

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What is jealousy but a reflection of our own failure?

- Harry Bosch

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To succeed you have to have a permanent learner's license.

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Writer Audre Lorde on facing our challenges:

"Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing."

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There's no competition between two flowers, they just bloom. 
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सच है, विपत्ति जब आती है, 


कायर को ही दहलाती है,


सूरमा नहीं विचलित होते,


क्षण एक नहीं धीरज खोते,


विघ्नों को गले लगाते हैं,


काँटों में राह बनाते हैं। 



मुँह से न कभी उफ़ कहते हैं,


संकट का चरण न गहते हैं,


जो आ पड़ता सब सहते हैं,


उद्योग-निरत नित रहते हैं,


शूलों का मूल नसाते हैं,


बढ़ खुद विपत्ति पर छाते हैं।



है कौन विघ्न ऐसा जग में,


टिक सके आदमी के मग में?


ख़म ठोंक ठेलता है जब नर


पर्वत के जाते पांव उखड़,


मानव जब जोर लगाता है,


पत्थर पानी बन जाता है।



गुण बड़े एक से एक प्रखर,


हैं छिपे मानवों के भीतर,


मेंहदी में जैसी लाली हो,


वर्तिका-बीच उजियाली हो,


बत्ती जो नहीं जलाता है,


रोशनी नहीं वह पाता है।


रामधारी सिंह "दिनकर"

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“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.

And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
― Haruki Murakami -kos
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