Hi aspirants, here are given few qoutes useful for your syllabus point of view which can be used directly or indirectly in your Ethics, Essays and other GS Papers. Take a printout of these quotes and cram them when you have become bored by regularly studying the facts and figures of your GS papers and optional papers. This way you can utilize your idle time effectively and efficiently.
• “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
• “The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.” – Theodore Roosevelt
• “History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future.” – John F. Kennedy
• “The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” – Thomas Carlyle
• “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” – Winston Churchill
• “The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill
• “Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
• “Good government is no substitute for self-government.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
• “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” – Adam Smith
• “The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
• “Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” – Ronald Reagan
• “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” – Dalai Lama
• “Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition, and myth frame our response.” – Arthur M. Schlesinger
• “Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” – Christian Lous Lange
• “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.” – Patrick Henry
• “The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” – Benjamin Franklin
• “We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.” – Margaret Mead
• “The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.” – Marlee Matlin
• “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” – Thomas Jefferson
• “The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.” – Albert Schweitzer
• “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
• “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” – Dalai Lama
• “Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.” – F. Forrester Church
• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
• “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
• “Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek
• “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan
• “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
• “Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat.” – Steve Jobs
• “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
• “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” – George Orwell
• “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.” – Herbert Hoover
• “Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa
• “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” – Nelson Mandela
• “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
• “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” – Frederick Douglass
• “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
• “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
• “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
• “The earth has music for those who listen.” – William Shakespeare
• “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
• “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
• “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela
• “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
• “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas.” – John F. Kennedy
Good luck! Keep on working hard every single day. The more hours you put into your studies, the more chances of fulfilling your dreams.