Gopal Quotes

Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the one that finds the gold.

Live your life in such a way that those who know you but don’t know God, will come to know God because they know you.

Self appreciation is a sign of maturity, seeking appreciation is a sign of immaturity

Pain is temporary- The pain you feel today is only to get strength to face tomorrow.

To accept someone when everything is going right is easy. But when things are falling apart around you and you stick together, that’s the test of a relationship. Love is when we have every reason to break up but we do not.

It is strange that sword and words have the same letters.

Watch your thoughts, they turn into words. Watch your words, they turn into actions. Watch your actions, they turn into habits. Watch your habits, they turn into character. Watch your character, it turns into your destiny.’ It all begins with a thought.

If something doesn’t work, people will say ‘we told you so’, and if it works, they will come up with a new theory and will conveniently forget what they had said earlier.

We live the life of others when we read their thoughts.’ —Ayn Rand

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Never go to sleep with bad thoughts and torturing memories. They will not help you to wake up whole and fully serene—the two states of mind and body without which no man can acquit himself well at his day's task. A child should be ushered into the chamber of sleep with serene joy.

As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself . . . Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.’ —Nelson Mandela

What a pity that most young people instead of seeing one animal in nature--which is worth a hundred in any Zoo--must derive their knowledge of God's creatures from their appearance in prisons. ... How do we manage to think that we know all about an animal by gazing at him penned in a cage?

My world consists of powerful people, intense music, sexy women, vodka, gangsters, ghosts and philosophies which I can twist and turn to my convenience.

Are red haired girls, red all over?

Even more strange is that they have the same effect if not handled properly.

I'm blessed when someone who I loved and trusted dropped me off, because I have a good choice to think and great lesson to learn

Familiarity breeds contempt,’ I replied. ‘When we are overly familiar with people, we forget how important they are to us and the correct way to behave with them.

The paradox of our times is that those who have the most can often be the least satisfied.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.’ —Martin Luther King, Jr

Random things keep happening, which are completely out of your control, and you can only control your reaction to an out-of-control situation. My real success, I believe, lies in my ability to make decisions and implement them superfast.

When things are beyond your control and there is nothing you can fo,why worry?

Have you ever heard silence? It is not a stillness which is the absence of sound. Silence is not empty, it is full of content. It is like the sky―intangible yet containing the stars, the sun, the moon, and all existence. That is silence and it is full of tongues.

All the tears shed in the world, where do they go? she wondered. If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched, drought-stricken fields in Gopal's village and beyond. Then perhaps these tears would have value and all this grief would have some meaning. Otherwise, it was all a waste, just an endless cycle of birth and death; of love and loss

We must find positivity in the bleakest situations and live by the principle of gratitude

At work we tend to compare and compete with others, instead of comparing and competing with ourselves. ‘Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful . . . that’s what matters to me.’ —Steve Jobs

Perhaps the attitude for us to take towards our many failures is the one adopted by Gopal Krishna Gokhale towards those of the Moderate nationalists: Let us not forget that we are at a stage of the country’s progress when our achievements are bound to be small, and our disappointments frequent and trying. That is the place which it has pleased Providence to assign to us in this struggle, and our responsibility is ended when we have done the work which belongs to that place. It will, no doubt, be given to our countrymen of future generations to serve India by their successes; we, of the present generation, must be content to serve her mainly by our failures. For, hard though it be, out of those failures the strength will come which in the end will accomplish great tasks.9

Winning a war such as this was not about planting flags or defending territory or building fancy villas. It was not about titles or promotions or offices. It was not about democracy or jihad, freedom or honor. It was about resisting the categories chosen for you; about stubbornness in the face of grand designs and schemas. About doing what you had to do, whether they called you a terrorist or an infidel. To win a war like this was to master the ephemeral, to plan a future while knowing that it could all be over in an instant. To comfort your children when the air outside throbs in the middle of the night, to squeeze your spouse’s hand tight when your taxi hits a pothole on an open highway, to go to school or the fields or a wedding and return to tell about it. To survive.

No beast of prey can kill its victim without frightening him first. In fact, no animal perishes until its destroyer strikes terror into its heart. To put it succinctly, an animals fear kills it before its enemy gives it the final blow.

that I always found a very strong resemblance between the rivalries and internal politics in the underworld and normal office politics and rivalries, because human nature is the same everywhere. The people who work in any company have their own individualities and intelligence levels and the only thing common among them is the ambition and greed to reach the top. So even though the company as whole is working towards a goal, the personal ambitions will conflict with each other, creating politics, frustration, jealousy, etc.

When someone is up there and he deserves to be up there, try to learn from what he has achieved. If you think he doesn’t deserve it, still try to learn from what he has achieved and add your own capability to it, as it might result in you climbing higher than him. But you should not sit on the ground, gazing at him with hatred and waiting for him to fall, because his descent won’t help you reach the top. And also you might often miss the point that people whom you look down upon may actually be far more capable than you. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I feel it’s truly wasteful to expend your energy in hating someone.

Everyone wants to get ahead of each other, and when they cannot, they get angry.

The service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.’ —Muhammad Ali

I don't want to say something and walk away, I want to wake you up and walk with you to achieve your dreams

The reason I'm being positive is to make everyone around me to get the positive energy

I don't care who is giving to whom, but I give my best to my people".

ಇರುವುದೆಲ್ಲವ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಇರದುದರೆಡೆಗೆ ತುಡಿವುದೇ ಜೀವನ

Failure is not an end, if you have it then don't burry it, let them inspires you with a new beginning.

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When things are beyond your control and there is nothing you can do,why worry

fight the strong urge to judge someone based on an initial interaction with them. Everyone has a fascinating story that we know nothing about.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

if someone chooses what they love to do, there is no stress in their life. As they say, ‘If you do what you love, you will never have to work a day in your life.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful . . . that’s what matters to me.’ —Steve Jobs

Set the goal to get

Aarti? She got me into trouble the first day we met,’ Gopal said. I dipped a biscuit in my tea and listened.

When everything goes right you feel you are the only reason behind it, when everything goes wrong you feel every one around you is the reason for it.

Often, people can display selflessness outside their home. People may help out in their community, or at temples or schools, and some may even make sure that they get a selfie to announce to the world that they have helped. But at home, they may not express the same service mentality. I believe that selflessness starts at home; with the ones we love the most. Are we doing what we can to help them? Are we there for them to help them physically as well as emotionally?

When upon life’s billows you are tempest-tossed, When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, Count your many blessings, name them one by one, And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.

parents, bread-butter again,’ I grumbled, shutting a blue plastic tiffin in the second row. Raghav and I moved to the next desk. ‘Forget it, Gopal. The class will be back any time,’ Raghav said.

So in short, the success of a film is due to the contribution of the actors and technicians in excess of my expectations, which is why it belongs to them, while failure belongs to me alone, as it means that I failed in channelizing their equally great contributions to their intended destination.

Women out in the village don't talk back to their husbands. It's just a law, when men say something, women should just listen. And you should never talk in a loud voice because a man outside might hear. I made that mistake, but I was lucky. In Tarinkot, a man beat his wife with an ax, and she survived, but her head was split open. Husbands who only use their hands or feet are very kind." -Heela (Gopal's female civilian Afghan respondent)

Watch your thoughts, they turn into words. Watch your words, they turn into actions. Watch your actions, they turn into habits. Watch your habits, they turn into character. Watch your character, it turns into your destiny.

Whatever we think and feel will colour what we say or do. He who fears, even unconsciously, or has his least little dream tainted with hate, will inevitably, sooner or later, translate these two qualites into action. Therefore, my brothers, live courage, breathe courage and give courage. Think and feel love so that you will be able to pour out of yourselves peace and serenity as naturally as a flower gives forth fragrance. Peace be unto all!!!

The reason I started the video library was that I knew around twenty of my friends and relatives owned video players. So I thought that if between them they hired twenty cassettes, at ₹10 a cassette a day, I would get ₹200 a day or ₹6,000 a month, which was the running cost of my shop. Anything extra, I thought, would be a profit which I could take a chance upon. Within a month of starting my shop, I was renting out more than 100 cassettes a day, but none of the twenty people I had counted upon ever came to my shop. If they did, they never paid, as they were my friends or were related to me. So in effect, what I had counted upon didn’t happen and success came from unexpected quarters. But I know in my heart that if I had not banked on those twenty people, there was no way I would have started my shop.

The toll from the two attacks: twenty-one pro-American leaders and their employees dead, twenty-six taken prisoner, and a few who could not be accounted for. Not one member of the Taliban or al-Qaeda was among the victims. Instead, in a single thirty-minute stretch the United States had managed to eradicate both of Khas Uruzgan’s potential governments, the core of any future anti-Taliban leadership—stalwarts who had outlasted the Russian invasion, the civil war, and the Taliban years but would not survive their own allies. People in Khas Uruzgan felt what Americans might if, in a single night, masked gunmen had wiped out the entire city council, mayor’s office, and police department of a small suburban town: shock, grief, and rage.

YOU MATTER- "if you forgive yourself then you can forgive others, if you control yourself then you can control others, if you understand yourself then you can understand others, if you love yourself then you can love others, if you respect yourself then you can respect others. Everything starts with only YOU. You Matter in your life.

When someone is up there and he deserves to be up there, try to learn from what he has achieved. If you think he doesn’t deserve it, still try to learn from what he has achieved and add your own capability to it, as it might result in you climbing higher than him. But you should not sit on the ground, gazing at him with hatred and waiting for him to fall, because his descent won’t help you reach the top. And also you might often miss the point that people whom you look down upon may actually be far more capable than you.

Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Offering gifts and accepting gifts, opening one’s mind and inquiring in confidence, sharing food and receiving food are the six exchanges that develop loving relationships.

The smile on my face doesn't mean my life is perfect. It means that despite my challenges, I choose to focus on my blessings.

I believe that the obsession with birthdays is primarily a function of the fear most individuals have that their existence might not matter to anybody else.

Getting rich is easy and staying rich is hard

Most people I met they have more potential than me, but I don't know why they are not using it to step up.

People will forget what you said, but no one will ever forget how you made them to feel

I'm not working for MONEY, I'm working for my FREEDOM.

Ordinary people can do extra ordinary things when they create opportunity towards their passion

Fail early as much you can so that you can succeed early as much you can.

Worrying is the one way elevator, when you get in, it will take you only down.

Feeling peaceful, happy and content is not about avoiding challenges in our life, but about how we navigate through these challenges to reach the type of life we want to live.

As a monk, I have to be cautious of overindulgence; it is essential to stay regulated in our habits.

Life without dreaming is like living without meaning.

If you are investing time, money, energy to develop yourself at present and that would be the huge profit ever in future.

Incidentally, the best birthday greeting I have ever received was in the form of an sms from an unknown number: ‘Hey Ramu, tere zindagi ka ek aur saal khatam…Marte Raho!

The mind is what we use to perceive the world. We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.

It is strange that sword and words have the same letters. Even more strange is that they have the same effect if not handled properly.

You can be completely selfish, completely selfless or any of the combinations in between. Life is a journey from being selfish to becoming selfless. ‘Act without expectation.’ —Lao Tzu

Fear is taught by grown up men and beasts to their young. Once we learn to be afraid, we rarely shake off the habit, and I believe our fear frightens other beasts causing them to attack us.

The buffalo that in nature looks healthy and silken, in a zoo is a mangy creature with matted mane and dirty skin. Can those who see buffalo in captivity ever conceive how beautiful they can be? What a pity that most young people instead of seeing on animal in nature - which is worth a hundred in any zoo- must derive their knowledge of God's creatures from their appearances in prison. If we cannot perceive any right proportion of man's moral nature by looking at prisoners in a jail, how do we manage to think that we know all about an animal by gazing at him penned in a cage?

What was most surprising, she was giving him the hardest thing to do first, but by failure at the great one he was learning the easier tasks with infallible power and skill. How different that is from our human way of training people, with the easiest always first. In nature animals cannot afford such long drawn-out step-by-step training. Animal children cannot be segregated in the schoolroom from the sharp experiences of life. They have to be educated in the heart of life itself. The easy and the difficult befall them without any sequence. It is a pity that in civilisation man has made the business of education so sequestered and slow.

Whenever an animal is frightened, particularly a cat, it runs away to get over its disgrace. In the case of a feline such an experience of disgrace remains forever in its character and memory. Fear may take some time to teach, but once it has been learned it can rarely be shaken out of a creature. In the case of a man, thought can be re-educated and through thought his own character can be recast. But animals who are mostly victims of their own habits, unless we, their man-friends, take infinite pains, are rarely de-habituated. More than man, an animal's character is but the sum total of its habits. These are formed by violent emotions such as fear.

We can increase our scope of selflessness beyond our family by serving our community, city or even nation.

You need an attitude of service. You’re not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.’ —David Green

What great men do, common men follow.

You can be completely selfish, completely selfless or any of the combinations in between. Life is a journey from being selfish to becoming selfless.

Act without expectation.’ —Lao Tzu

The first step in selflessness is to practise it with our family.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.’ —Desmond Tutu

Think: Is this in my control? If yes, you can do something about it. If no, then you cannot do anything about it. Therefore, in both circumstances, why worry?

Our Silent presence can be more powerful than a million empty words. We all have two ears and one mouth; the amount we listen and the amount we speak should be done proportionately. Rarely do people want an active solution to their problems before they have been thoroughly heard and understood

To become satisfied, we don’t have to increase the things we have; we need to increase the focus on the things we do have.

Exercise: Guided affirmation Close your eyes. Take a deep breath in for a count of four seconds. Hold for a count of two seconds. Then breathe out for a count of six seconds. Each time you breathe in, say to yourself: ‘I am not alone, the universe is with me, I can deal with whatever it is that I am going through . . .’ You can be more specific about the situation that you are dealing with. Each time you breathe out, say to yourself: ‘I let go of my negative feelings. I let go of my anxiety. I feel peaceful. I feel empowered.’ Repeat this exercise ten times. Now slowly open your eyes.

Life is a difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others, not realizing that everyone has a different question paper.

Querocity is the initial step in any new innovation.

A diary is your best friend; you can share every thought that you might not share with anyone else.

Silence is the best way to resolve any conflict.

If you truly want to grow in your life, try spending time alone with yourself.

Curiosity is the initial step in any new innovation.

Sitting alone allows you to truly see your reflection, as amidst the crowd, you often forget who you are.

Many strive for zero to one, yet few grasp the significance of zero's value.