"If you kill a person you're a murderer, if you kill hundreds you're a conqueror".

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost.
When health is lost, something is lost.
But when character is lost, everything is lost.

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Visions and ideals are like stars,we never reach them; but like mariners over sea,we can chart our course by them.

1. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein
2. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. Napoleon Hill
3. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford
4. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. Vince Lombardi
5. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. Stephen Covey
6. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Downs
7. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. Dr. Denis Waitley
8. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Mahatma Gandhi
9. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau
11. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. Ancient Indian Proverb
12. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao Tzu
13. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. Farrah Gray
14. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. Bill Cosby
15. Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. Jamie Paolinetti

Good luck and remember me in your prayers

Profound regards,
RMKamran.

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Nasru minal'lahi wa fat'hun qareeb

There is no worse death than the end of hope.
King Arthur

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Visions and ideals are like stars,we never reach them; but like mariners over sea,we can chart our course by them.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Alan Lakein

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"Nay! man is evidence against himself. Though he puts forth his excuses." Holy Qur'an (75:14-15)

1. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. Christopher Columbus
2. The best revenge is massive success. Frank Sinatra
3. You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
4. Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. H. Jackson Brown, Jr
5. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” Audrey Hepburn
6. Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
7. Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
8. Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare. Japanese Proverb
9. In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt
10. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. Mark Twain

Best of luck and remember me in your prayers

Profound regards,
RMKamran.

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Nasru minal'lahi wa fat'hun qareeb

Dear all!
Following are the quotes I collected from the Dawn newspaper during the span of my CSS and PMS exams and am sharing them so that all the respected members of this forum could utilize them for the decoration of their answers in CSS and PMS exams.
1. “Negative thoughts and tensions are like birds. We can’t stop them from flying near us but we can certainly stop them from making a nest in our minds”. (Anonymous).
2. “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintains neutrality in times of moral crisis”. (Edmund Dante).
3. “A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special”. (Nelson Mandela).
4. “It doesn’t matter who votes or how many votes? What matters is who does the counting”. (Stalin).
5. “Politics deserves much praise. Politics is the pre-occupation of free men and its existence is a test of democracy”. (Prof. Bernard Crick).
6. “Every living creature that comes into the world has something allotted to him to perform; therefore, she/he should not stand an idle spectator of what others are doing”. (Sarah Kirly).
7. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind”. (Dr. Seuss).
8. “There are millions and millions of our people who hardly get one meal a day. Is this civilization? Is this the aim of Pakistan? If that is the idea of Pakistan, I wouldn’t have it”. (Father of the Nation).
9. “So we are struggling, fighting to eat and we wondering when we’ll be free. So we patiently wait for that fateful day, it’s not far away”. (Anonymous).
10. “Education is ornament in prosperity and refuge in adversity”. (Aristotle).
11. “Poverty is the worst form of violence”. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi).
12. “Education is a matter of life and death for Pakistan. The world is progressing so rapidly that without a requisite advance in education, not only shall we be left behind by others, but, we may be wiped out altogether”. (Father of the Nation).
13. “Sixty years ago, I knew everything, now I know nothing. Education is the progressive discovery of our own ignorance”.(Durant)
14. “If you kill a person, you’re a murderer. If you kill hundreds, you’re a conqueror”. (Anonymous)
15. “I don’t know what the ultimate shape of this constitution is going to be, but I’m sure that it will be of a democratic type, embodying the essential principle of Islam”. (Father of the Nation)
16. “Courage on the battlefield is a common possession, but even respectable people are lacking civil courage”. (Otto Von Bismarck)
17. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing”. (Helen Keller)
18. “Little learning is a dangerous thing, drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring”. (Alexander Pope)
19. “Cowards die many times before their death, the valiant never taste death but once”. (Shakespeare-Julius Caesar)
20. “Those days have gone when the country was ruled by the bureaucracy. It is (the day of the) people’s government, responsible to the people, more or less on democratic lines and parliamentary practice…… Make the people feel that you’re their servants and friends, maintain the highest standards of honour, integrity, justice and fair play”. (Father of the Nation-March 25th, 1848, Chittagong)
21. “Men make their own history but they don’t make it just as they please. They don’t make it under circumstances chosen by them, but under, circumstances directly encountered and transmitted from the past”. (Karl Marx)
22. “It was not good governance or liberal values, let alone peace, to which the foreign policy of our country was devoted but it was the defence of US interests against those of the other states”. (John Mearsheimer-The Tragedy of Great Power Politics)
23. “What difference does it make to the dead,the orphan and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty and democracy”. (Adolf Hitler)
24. “A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user”. (Theodore Roosevelt)
25. “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom; it was the age of foolishness”. (Charles Dickens)
26. “The ink of a scholar is holier than the blood of a soldier”. (The Prophet of Islam)
27. “No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you”. (Father of the Nation)
28. “There is a tide in the affairs of men”. (Shakespeare-Julius Caesar)
29. “Rightly constituted laws should be the final sovereign; and personal rule, whether it be exercised by a single person or a body of persons, should be sovereign only in those matters in which law is unable, owing to the difficulty of framing general rules for all contingencies, to make an exact pronouncement”. (Aristotle)
30. “We judges have no guns to fight the terrorist, but we have the authority to ensure and strengthen the hands of those who actually apply the law”. (Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry-Ex-CJP)
31. “Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it”. (Munir Akram)
32. “Nature has created men so that they desire everything but are unable to attain it; desires being, thus, always greater than the faculty of acquiring”. (Nicollo Machiavelli)
33. “The views of all men are shaped by their experiences”. (Judd Harmon)
34. “It is better to count heads than to break them”. (Anonymous)
35. “Victory is the first law of politics”. (Dr. Finer)
36. “Few individuals, significantly, alter the course of history; fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation state; Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all the three”. (Stanley Wolpert-Jinnah of Pakistan)
37. “Three apples that changed the world: the one that Eve ate, the one that fell on Newton’s head and the one that Steve built”.
38. “What has been earned from the society must be shared with the society”.
39. “A teacher affects eternity; she/he can never tell where her/his influence stops”. (Henry Adams)
40. “Practice makes knowledge perfect”. (Hazrat Ali RA)
41. “If it bleeds, it leads”.
42. “Facts are sometimes stranger than fictions”.
43. “To teach is to learn”. (Hazrat Ali RA)
44. “Honesty is Divine language”. (Hazrat Ali RA)
45. “Please substitute love for Islam and your nation in place of sectional interests, jealousy, tribal notions and selfishness”. (Father of the Nation)
46. “Democracy as we understand it, means that the people must be free to choose the rulers and the rulers govern according to the wishes of the people”. (Ivor Jennings)
47. “Love is the foundation of my existence”. (The Prophet of Islam SAW)
48. “When you look at history from the point of view of people at the bottom rather than the people at the top, everything looks different”. (Howard Zinn)
49. “Mind is like a parachute, it works when you open it”.
50. “Our freedom is the reward of the services and efforts of a single man and that you know is our most beloved; Quaid-i-Azam”. (Liaqat Ali Khan)
51. “Permanence is power, rotation is castration”. (Sir Humphrey Appleby)
52. “Truth means conformity of speech with the Divine mode of working”. (Hazrat Ali RA)
53. “We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual friends. Our interests are eternal and perpetual and those interests it is our duty to follow”. (Lord Plamerston)
54. “When the state and the society leave them without any service, the ordinary men has no option but to go and pray to a saint to mediate between the individuals and the God for the fulfillment of their wishes”. (Mubarak Ali)
55. “The pursuit of happiness is fundamental (universal) goal”. (UN General Assembly)
56. “Armaments produce fear and fear produces more armaments with disastrous results for the national security of all people concerned”. (Prof. Philip Noel-Baker)
57. “States are now widely understood to be instruments at the service of their people and not vice-versa”. (Kofi Annan)
58. “When a diplomat say yes he means perhaps, when he say perhaps he means no and when he say no he is no diplomat”
59. “Foreign Policy is the use of political influence in order to induce other states to exercise their law making power in a manner desired by the concerned state”. (Northedge)
60. “A national language not only represents the national identity of a nation but also serves as a mode of communication that binds people, living in a country, to a common cultural bond”. (Tariq Hasan)
61. “One’s obedience to Allah is proportionate to one’s wisdom”. (Hazrat Ali RA)
62. “The pain is less when you can’t clearly see what you’ve been denied”. (M. J. Akbar)
63. “He’s really wise whose actions reflect his words”. (Hazrat Ali RA)
64. “War against hunger or war for life is the real war that all leaders need to learn to wage”. (Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva)
65. “Every revolution is above all a natural result of the given society’s internal development”. (Leonid Brezhnev)
66. “Among a people, generally corrupt, liberty can’t long exist”. (Edmund Burke)
67. “The right of people to self-determination shall also include permanent sovereignty over their natural wealth and resources. In no case, may, a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence on the the grounds of any right that may be claimed by other states”. (UN Human Rights Commission)
68. “Every foundation that you see is defective; except the foundation of love which is without defect”. (Faiz Ahmed Faiz)
69. “The means of defense against foreign danger, historically, have become the instruments of tyranny at home”. (James Madison)
70. “Poverty is the most dangerous weapon of mass destruction; it doesn’t kill enemies and terrorists only. It also kills children, often in the wombs of their mothers, who don’t get healthy food”. (John Agyekum Kufour)
71. “Media holds mirror to the society”.
72. “Power is a means by which the demands for change and resistance to change are advanced”. (J. W. Burton)
73. “Political power is a psychological relation between those who exercise it and those over whom it is exercised. It gives the former control over certain actions of the latter, through the influence, which the former exerts over the latter’s mind”. (H. J. Morgenthau)
74. “Power is the capacity to impose one’s will on others by reliance on effective sanctions in case of non-compliance”. (Schwarzenberger)
75. “Who rules Eastern Europe commands heartland, who rules the heartland commands the world island and who rules World Island rules the world”. (Mackinder)
76. “Fascism is the purest form of democracy”. (Mussolini)
77. “I have learnt that heroes are those people who do what has to be done, when it needs to be done regardless of the consequences”. (James Rhineheart)
78. “Democracy is a mindset and, in particular, a set of unwritten principles”. (Yadh bin Akhour)
79. “The only thing worse than being an enemy of the US is being an ally”. (John F. Kennedy)
80. “With riches a strange land is homeland, while with destitution even homeland is a strange land”. (Hazrat Ali RA)
81. “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance”.
82. “As the circle of light increases, so does its circumference of darkness”.
83. “He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools”.
84. “There are decades when nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen”. (Vladimir Lenin)
85. “A starving man has no opinion”.
86. “To destroy caste system, all the Hidnu Kshatriya would have to be done away with”. (Dr. B. R. Ambedkar)
87. “My critics are my friends and my admirers are my foes”
88. “It is an age in which dictators are falling and democracies failing”. (Kishore Mahbubani)
89. “Once the leaders refuse to lead opinion and prefer to be led by public opinion, they make impossible the formation of a sound public opinion”. (Walter Lipmann)
90. “There are people who want to create mischief and make the propaganda that we’ll scrap the Shariah law; Islamic principles have no parallel”. (Father of the Nation)
91. “Victory has many friends while defeat is always an alien”.
92. “If we began to think of ourselves as Bengalis, Punjabis, Sindhis etc. first, and Muslims and Pakistanis only incidentally, then Pakistan is bound to disintegrate”. (Father of the Nation)
93. “The electoral system is the basic structure of a country’s institution”. (Karl Marx)
94. “Other men have written books and founded colleges; but to arrest as with a wall the degeneration of a whole people, that is the workd of a prophet”. (Sir John Cumming about Sir Syed Ahmed Khan)
95. “Education means to awaken the sleeping talent of an individual”. (Aristotle)
96. “Don’t wait to strike till the iron is hot but make it hot by striking”. (William B. Sprague)
97. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character give him power”. (Abraham Lincoln)
98. “Nothing doth hurt in a state than when cunning men pass for wise”. (Francis Bacon)
99. “Nobody gives you freedom you’ve to fight for it; nobody fights for you you’ve to fight for yourself”. (Ayub Khan)
100. “Man can’t discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore”. (Andre Gide)
101. “Judges and justices are the servants of law not the other way around. Judges are like umpires, umpires don’t make the rules; they apply them”. (Roberts-CJSC US)
102. “Don’t fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric”. (Bertrand Russel)
103. “The best school of democracy and the best guarantee of its success is the practice in local self-government”. (Lord Bryce-Modern Democrcaies)
104. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
105. “You can fool all the people some of the time and you can fool some of the people all of the time but you can’t fool all the people all the time”. (Abraham Lincoln)
106. “Of all the evils for which men has made their self responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as their abuse of the fair half of humanity: the female sex”. (MK Gandhi)
107. “The man who moved a mountain was the one who began carrying away small stones”. (Chinese Proverb)
108. “I have a dream that my four little children will, one day, live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character”. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
109. “Don’t go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”. (RW Emerson)
110. “In a free society, some are guilty but all are responsible”.
111. “Don’t go through life but grow through life”.
112. “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and will try again in a different way”. (Dale Carnegie)
113. “A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love”. (Basile)
114. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results”. (Albert Einstein)
115. “I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did but they will never forget how you made them feel”. (Maya Angelou)
116. “It doesn’t matter whether the cat is black or white in so far as it can catch a mouse”. (Den Xio Ping)
117. “The more you say, the less people remember”. (Francis Fenelon)
118. “You’re free; you’re free to go to your temples, you’re free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this state of Pakistan”. (Father of the Nation)
119. “You should be kind to those who’re on Earth and He, Who is in the Heavens, will be kind to you”. (The Prophet of Islam SAW)
120. “We are starting in the days where there’s no discrimination between one community and another, no discrimination between one caste or creed and another. We’re starting with this fundamental principle that we’re all citizens and equal citizens of one state”. (Father of the Nation-August 11th, 1947)
121. “Politics is the enemy of strategy”. (Gordon Goldstein)
122. “Darkness can’t drive out darkness only light can do that; hate can’t drive out hate only love can do that”. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
123. “Women hold up half of the sky”. (Mao Tse Tung)
124. “Keep yourself away from those people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become a great one”. (Mark Twain)
125. “It requires less character to discover the faults of others than it does to tolerate them”. (J. Petit Senn)
126. “Happiness comes from spiritual wealth not material wealth. Happiness comes from giving not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we can’t stop it from coming to us also”. (Maulana Rumi)
127. “A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others”. (Ayn Rand)
128. “The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity”. (Ayn Rand)
129. “Men best successes come after their disappointment”. (Henry Ward Beecher)
130. “Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future”. (John F. Kennedy)
131. “Good governance is a culture that makes people act responsibly, thoughtfully and conscientiously”. (Amin Valliani)
132. “Every man dies, not every man really lives”. (William Wallace)
133. “By associating with wise people you’ll become wise yourself”. (Menander)
134. “There is no doubt that the future of our state will and must greatly depend upon the type of education and the way in which we bring up our children as the future servants of Pakistan. What we have to do is to mobilize our people and build up the character of our future generations”. (Father of the Nation)
135. “Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big apetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other”. (Ronald Reagan)
136. “Socialism works in two places: the heaven where they don’t need it and the hell where they already have it”. (Ronald Reagan)
137. “The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). But make no mistake: Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it. Islam demands from us the tolerance of other creeds and we welcome, in closest association with us, all those who, of whatever creed, are themselves willing and ready to play their part as true and loyal citizens of Pakistan”. (Father of the Nation-Broadcast to the People of Australia, February 19th, 1948)
138. “Don’t worry Pakistan is not going to be a theocracy, ruled by priests, having a Divine mission”. (Father of the Nation-Broadcast to the People of US)
139. “After battlefields, history’s biggest injustices have taken place in the courtrooms”. (Maulana Abul Kalam Azad)
140. “Education begins a gentleman; actions complete him”. (Oprah Winfrey)
141. “All humans are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endured with reason and conscience and act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood”. (UN Human Rights Declaration 1948)
142. “The demise of states comes when leaders only use superficial words and don’t penetrate or go deeply into the souls of people”.
143. “The hands that rock the cradle rule the world”.
144. “A forest can grow itself but a garden can’t”.
145. “If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life and returns imperfect and good for nothing to the world below”. (Plato)
146. “Always do your best for what you plant now you’ll harvest later”. (Og Mandino)
147. “The kind of soil that favours democracy is the soil that has been cultivated best”. (Giovani Sartori)
148. “Democracy is not about shouting ‘we are hungry’. It is about eating morning breakfast, lunch and supper. People have to learn that the poor like to eat well”. (Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva)
149. “My friends! We’ll be fully educated only when we have full control of education in our hands…… When Philosophy will be in our right hand, Natural Sciences in our left hand and the crown of Kalima Tauheed on our heads. We become human only when we take education in our hands”. (Sir Syed Ahmed Khan)
150. “To educate is to invoke ruthless criticism of everything existing”. (Karl Marx)
151. “Now, I think, we should keep that in front of us as our ideal and you’ll find that in course of time Hindus would cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in political sense as citizens of the state”. (Father of the Nation).
152. “Education is a slow moving but powerful force. It may not be fast enough or strong enough to save us from catastrophe, but it is the strongest force available”. (Senator J. William Fullbright)
153. “The real difference among men is energy. A strong will, a settled purpose, and an invincible determination can accomplish almost anything; and in this lies the distinction between great men and little men”. (Thomas Fuller)

Regards

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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts" (Winston Churchill)

1. Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. Voltaire
2. Have the passion, take the action & magic will happen. Bar Rafaeli
3. When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?' Sydney Harris
4. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James
5. Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed. Booker T. Washington
6. Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
7. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. Roger Staubach
8. If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. J.M. Power

Good luck and remember me in your prayers

Profound regards,
RMKamran.

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Nasru minal'lahi wa fat'hun qareeb

What worries you, masters you.

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There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

Nice words written on a balloon flying up in the sky:

"It is not what's outside; But it is what's inside, that takes you to the top!"

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"Nay! man is evidence against himself. Though he puts forth his excuses." Holy Qur'an (75:14-15)