Sadagraha Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you — George R R Martin

Lead, follow - what difference does it make? It's all a choice. There's no escape in blame, no comfort in shirking responsibility. We all make choices. We must all face the consequences of those choices. — Wayne Thomas Batson

It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick! — Elizabeth Delisi

But I could not for the life of me find out a new name, and therefore offered a nominal prize through Indian Opinion to the reader who made the best suggestion on the subject. As a result Maganlal Gandhi coined the word Sadagraha (Sat: truth, Agraha: firmness) and won the prize. But in order to make it clearer I changed the word to Satyagraha which has since become current in Gujarati as a designation for the struggle. — Mahatma Gandhi

Great companies are built by people who never stop thinking about ways to improve the business. — J. Willard Marriott

I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices ... and recover quickly from their bad choices. — David Cottrell

They were both deciding not to be what others wanted them to be but to brand themselves for the world to see. To do their own packaging, so to speak, and to direct their powers to their specific target audiences. — Sarah Schulman

The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think it's time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world. — Vandana Shiva

As sure as roses will have thorns, love will bring you pain — Teresa Bodwell

You watch guys live through their peaks, and then unfortunately, you've got to come down from that peak. — Jimmie Johnson

The balance between consumption and production makes price. The market settles, and alone can settle, that price. Market is the meeting and conference of the consumer and producer, when they mutually discover each other's wants. Nobody, I believe, has observed with any reflection what market is, without being astonished at the truth, the correctness, the celerity, the general equity, with which the balance of wants is settled. They who wish the destruction of that balance, and would fain by arbitrary regulation decree, that defective production should not be compensated by encreased price, directly lay their axe to the root of production itself. [Thoughts and Details on Scarcity] — Edmund Burke

That age is best which is the first
When youth and blood are warmer. — Robert Herrick

But obviously if there was no concept of ownership there'd be no concept of stealing, would there? As long as there's one starving child in the world, all property is theft. — Fuminori Nakamura

When it comes to misfortune, we are all selfish at heart, offering up the same prayers: not me, not mine. Not yet. — Simon Beckett