Category: Quotes

Measure of what you believe is what you do!

“The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don’t read what they write, don’t ask them what they believe, just observe what they do.“
 
I might think a lot of good things. My intent might be very noble. I might have the best of plans. But if all the above doesn’t result in me doing something about them, I truly draw a nought!

So if one claims to have self improvement as a personal value, he/she needs to constantly do things that demonstrate this value. 
I believe in what Mr. Montagu has mentioned ..I truly do. And I would love to live by this belief.

Gandhi on Customers

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Intended for this to be a Oct 2 (Gandhi’s birthday) post. Better late than never.
I also know that I have mentioned this before. But then, there are still many who haven’t learnt from this.
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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption to our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider to our business. He is a part of it. We are not doing him a favour by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us the opportuity to do so.

– Mahatma Gandhi –

Gandhi on being open to new cultures

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Intended for this to be a Oct 2 (Gandhi’s birthday) post. Better late than never.
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“I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed.
I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible.
But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.“
– Mahatma Gandhi –

Emerson on Persistence

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do. Not that the nature of the thing itself has changed but our power to do it is increased.“

– Ralph Waldo Emerson –