Qoutes of Day

[Gin ka Pakistan]

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.

'There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.'

 

[Solomon2]

The Secretary: What do they drink in Kashmir?

T.N. Kaul: Fresh air and love.

- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume E-8, Documents on South Asia, 1973-1976, Document 214, Memorandum of Conversation, Washington, October 7, 1975, 2:45 p.m.

 

[waraich66]

Quotes on LEADERSHIP





"To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!'"

— Lao-tsu


"If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall in the ditch."

— Jesus Christ


"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry."

— Winston Churchill


"Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers."

— Dee Hock
Founder and CEO Emeritus, Visa


"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."

— John Kenneth Galbraith


"If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever."

— G.K. Chesterton to Alexander Woollcott


"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

— Henry Kissinger


"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings."

— Peter Drucker


"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."

— John Buchan


"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

— Dwight D. Eisenhower


"You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that's assault, not leadership."

— Dwight D. Eisenhower


"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest."

— Hesiod
8th Century BC Greek poet


"Never give an order that can't be obeyed."

— General Douglas MacArthur


"Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers. We are tired of leaders we fear, tired of leaders we love, and of tired of leaders who let us take liberties with them. What we need for leaders are men of the heart who are so helpful that they, in effect, do away with the need of their jobs. But leaders like that are never out of a job, never out of followers. Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away."

— Admiral James B. Stockdale


"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand."

— General Colin Powell


"I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be."

— Warren Bennis


"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."

— Harry Truman


"Leadership is intentional influence."

— Michael McKinney


"The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership."

— Gary Wills
Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders


“"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."

— Henry Peter Brougham, The Present State of Law, 1828


"A leader is one who influences a specific group of people to move in a God-given direction."

— J. Robert Clinton


"All Leadership is influence."

— John C. Maxwell
Injoy, Inc.


"Now there are five matters to which a general must pay strict heed. The first of these is administration; the second, preparedness; the third, determination; the fourth, prudence; and the fifth, economy."

— Wu Ch'i (430-381 BC)


"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too."

— Sam Rayburn


"Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others may receive your orders without being humiliated."

— Dag Hammarskjöld


"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on."

— Walter Lippmann


"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'"

— Lao-Tse


"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."

— Theodore Roosevelt


"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned."

— Harold Geneen


"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."

— Max DePree


"Four rules of leadership in a free legislative body:
First, no matter how hard-fought the issue, never get personal. Don't say or do anything that may come back to haunt you on another issue, another day....
Second, do your homework. You can't lead without knowing what you're talking about....
Third, the American legislative process is one of give and take. Use your power as a leader to persuade, not intimidate....
Fourth, be considerate of the needs of your colleagues, even if they're at the bottom of the totem pole...."

— George Bush
Former President of the United States


"Speak Softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

— Theodore Roosevelt


"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."

— Stephen R. Covey


"Authority should be seen as a part of leadership, not as a way around it."

— Michael McKinney


"He who has great power should use it lightly."

— Seneca


"How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group."

— Sir John Harvey-Jones


"He makes a great mistake ... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection."

— Terence


"The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those around him that he knows."

— Clarence Randall


"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case."

— Ken Kesey


"As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around."

— Patrick Lencioni


"Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you."

— Henry Gilmer


"Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."

— Peter F. Drucker


"Leadership is the ability to establish standards and manage a creative climate where people are self-motivated toward the mastery of long term constructive goals, in a participatory environment of mutual respect, compatible with personal values."

— Mike Vance


"The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do."

— Andrew Carnegie


"Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration—of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine."

— Lance Secretan, Industry Week, October 12, 1998


"More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there is one thing a leader can do to connect with followers at a human, or better still a spiritual level, it is to become engaged with them fully, to share experiences and emotions, and to set aside the processes of leadership we have learned by rote."

— Lance Secretan, Industry Week, October 12, 1998


"There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple, and useful life."

— Booker T. Washington


"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."


"Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated."

— Fred Smith


"Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil - the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be."

— William George Jordan


"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

— Margaret Mead


"My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence."

— General Montgomery


"High sentiments always win in the end, The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic."

— George Orwell


"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching."

— St. Francis of Assisi


"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson


"In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now."

— Wangari Maathai


"I think leadership comes from integrity - that you do whatever you ask others to do. I think there are non-obvious ways to lead. Just by providing a good example as a parent, a friend, a neighbor makes it possible for other people to see better ways to do things. Leadership does not need to be a dramatic, fist in the air and trumpets blaring, activity."

— Scott Berkun


"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."

— Jack Welch


"I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. I want to make sure there is no discrepancy between what we say and what we do. If you preach accountability and then promote somebody with bad results, it doesn't work. I personally believe the best training is management by example. Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do."

— Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan


"When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that a "drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall."

— Abraham Lincoln
February 22, 1842 in Temperance Address


"I strongly believe that the responsibility of leadership is to shape the debate—to practice and project the right attributes—whether in a business enterprise, in our society, and even in our religions."

— Farooq Kathwari, CEO Ethan Allen


"Leader in its most important sense means being the agent of your own life, influencing the things you care about most in the world to make it a richer life. "

— Stewart Friedman, Total Leadership

 

[rosemary]

Simply superb and fantastic! Thanks all!

 

[BlackenTheSky]

Life is like an ice cream,so enjoy before it melts.

 

[BlackenTheSky]

Peace will come when the Arabs start to love their children more than they hate us.
- Golda Meir

Peace will come when Americans start using their brain instead of Killing the Muslims.

-Jana

Let me correct you both a little.

PEACE WILL COME WHEN LIFE WILL NO LONGER EXIST ON THIS PLANET-dez

 

[waraich66]

Let me correct you both a little.

PEACE WILL COME WHEN LIFE WILL NO LONGER EXIST ON THIS PLANET-dez

Complete peace can be restored in Planet when all human being complying with orders of Allah.

 

[Solomon2]

"Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of this world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”

- J.R.R. Tolkein

 

[waraich66]

As-Salaam Alaikum Wa-Rahmatullah i Wa-Barakatuhu,

In a Hadith of Sahih Muslim, Hazrat Abu Hurairah (رضي الله عن&#1607 reports that Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسل&#1605 has mentioned:
“Imaan has over seventy or over sixty branches. The most virtuous is to say لا إله إلا الله, the lowest is to remove some harmful object from the path and Modesty is a branch of Imaan”
(Sahih Muslim, vol.1, pg.195,Darul Ma’rifah)[1]
According to Shu’bul Imaan of Allamah Baihaqi, the 77 branches of Imaan are as follows:
1. To believe in Allah.
2. To believe in the messengers of Allah.
3. To believe in the Angels.
4. To believe in the Quran and all other divine books.
5. To believe in predestination.
6. To believe in the last day.
7. To believe in resurrection after death.
8. To believe that mankind will be gathered after they are resurrected from their graves.
9. To believe that Jannah is the abode of the believers and Jahannam is the abode of the Kuffaar.
10. To believe it is obligatory to love Allah.
11. To believe it is obligatory to fear Allah.
12. To believe it is obligatory to have hope in Allah.
13. To believe it is obligatory to put ones trust on Allah.
14. To believe it is obligatory to love Nabi (صلى الله عليه وسل&#1605.
15. To believe it is obligatory to revere Nabi (صلى الله عليه وسل&#1605.
16. A person is so passionate for his deen that it is more pleasing for him to be thrown in the fire than to renounce Islam.
17. To acquire (Islamic) knowledge and to acquire the virtues of knowledge and the virtue of the learned.
18. To propagate beneficial knowledge.
19. To honour the Quran by learning and teaching it, to stay within its boundaries and jurisdictions, to know what it permits and what it prohibits and to revere the people of Quran.
20. Purity.

21. The five daily Salaah.
22. Zakaat.
23. Saum (to fast in the month of Ramadaan)
24. I’tikaaf.
25. Hajj.
26. Jihad and its types.
27. To guard the boundaries in the path of Allah.
28. To remain firm against the enemy and not to escape the battle field.
29. To hand over 1/5 of the booty to the leader or his collector.
30. To free a slave in order to gain proximity to Allah.
31. The obligatory compensations (for certain crimes).
32. To fulfil contracts (and Promises).
33. To enumerate the bounties of Allah and to be grateful for them.
34. To protect the tongue against that which there is no need.
35. To fulfil trusts.
36. Prohibition to kill another person.
37. To protect the private organs from Haraam.
38. To refrain from Haraam wealth.
39. To exercise precaution with regards to food and drink and to abstain from Haraam foods.
40. To abstain from prohibited clothing and utensils.

41. To abstain from games and amusement that is contrary to Shariah.
42. To be moderate in expenditure.
43. Not to harbour ill feelings or jealousy.
44. To respect the honour of people and not to ridicule others.
45. To do an act sincerely for the pleasure of Allah and not for show.
46. To be pleased with a good action and grief over an evil action.
47. To hasten towards Taubah after every sin.
48. Sacrifices done to attain proximity to Allah (i.e. Hadi’, Udhiyah and Aqeeqah)
49. To obey those of authority.
50. To hold fast onto that which the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamāat are upon.
51. To pass a ruling between people with justice.
52. To command towards good and to forbid from evil.
53. To assist in acts of virtue and piety.
54. Modesty.
55. Kindness towards parents.
56. To join family ties.
57. Good character.
58. To be kind towards ones slaves.
59. To fulfil the rights of the master.
60. To fulfil the rights of one’s children and family.
61. To remain close to the righteous, love them, greet them shake hands with them.
62. To reply to someone who made Salaam.
63. To visit the sick.
64. To perform Janazah Salaah upon a Muslim who passed away.
65. To reply to the person who sneezed.
66. To distance one’s self from the Kuffaar and those who cause corruption and to be hard towards them.
67. To honour one’s neighbour.
68. To honour one’s guest.
69. To conceal the faults of others.
70. To be patient in difficult times.
71. To exercise abstinence and not to have high hopes.
72. To be possessive and not to fulfil ones carnal desires.
73. To avoid futile activities.
74. Generosity.
75. To have mercy on the young and to honour the elders.
76. To reconcile between people.
77. For a person to love for his Muslim brother that which he loves for himself and to dislike for him that which he dislikes for himself.

 

[Solomon2]

^^^^^
Fundie, are you confident in the English interpretation you've posted?

 

[H2O3C4Nitrogen]

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"

Mark Twain​

 

[BlackenTheSky]

''NeveR DesiGn YouR ChaRacTer
LikE A GardeN where AnYoNe CaN WalK .
.
.
DesiGn YoUr CharActeR LikE ThE SkY
Where EveRyoNe DeSiRe To ReAcH." (HITLER)