Quotes by Shiv Khera

Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records

The tragedy is that there are many walking encyclopedias who are living failures.

Schools are a fountain of knowledge: some students come to drink , some to sip and others just to gargle.

We are drowning in information but starving for knowledge and wisdom. Education ought to teach us not only how to make a living but also how to live.

* Intelligence is quickness to learn. Ability is the skill to apply what is learned. Competence is the ability and the desire to apply what is learned. Desire is the attitude that makes a skillful person competent. Many skillful people are incompetent. Ability without the right attitude is wasted.

This one phrase, It is my life, I will do what I want, has done more damage than good. People choose to ignore the spirit and derive the meaning that is convenient to them. Such people have tied this phrase to selfishness and Im sure that was not the intent. These people forget that we dont live in isolation. What you do affects me and what I do affects you. We are connected. We have to realize that we are sharing this planet and we must learn to behave responsibly. There are two kinds of people in this world--takers and givers. Takers eat well and givers sleep well. Givers have high self-esteem, a positive attitude, and they serve society. By serving society, I do not mean a run-of-the-mill pseudo leader-turned- politician who serves himself by pretending to serve others. As human beings, we all have the need to receive and take. But a healthy personality with high self-esteem is one that not only has its need to take but also to give.

winner dont do different things.They do things differently.

In my travels, I have noticed that in some countries drinking has become a national pastime. If you dont drink, they look at you as if there is something wrong. Their motto is: It doesnt matter how bad your English is, as long as your Scotch is good. If a banker asked them what their liquid assets are, they would bring two bottles of Scotch.

Our thoughts are causes. You sow a thought, you reap an action. You sow an action, you reap a habit. You sow a habit, you reap a character. You sow a character, you reap a destiny. It all starts with a thought.

Athletes train 15 years for 15 seconds of performance. Ask them if they got lucky. Ask an athlete how he feels after a good workout. He will tell you that he feels spent. If he doesnt feel that way, it means he hasnt worked out to his maximum ability. Losers think life is unfair. They think only of their bad breaks. They dont consider that the person who is prepared and playing well still got the same bad breaks but overcame them. That is the difference. His threshold for tolerating pain becomes higher because in the end he is not training so much for the game but for his character. Alexander Graham Bell was desperately trying to invent a hearing aid for his partially deaf wife. He failed at inventing a hearing aid but in the process discovered the principles of the telephone. You wouldnt call someone like that lucky, would you?Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation. Without effort and preparation, lucky coincidences dont happen.

Success is no mystery, but simply the result of consistently applying some basic principles. The reverse is just as true: Failure is simply a result of making a few mistakes repeatedly. All of this might sound too simplistic, but the fact is that most truths are very simple. Im not saying they are easy, but they certainly are simple.

Culture in any place always goes top down, never bottom up. We need to step back and look at what kind of environment we have created for ourselves and those around us. It is tough to expect positive behavior in a negative environment. Where lawlessness becomes the law, honest citizens become cheats, crooks and thieves.

Remember, a persons character is not only judged by the company he or she keeps but also by the company he or she avoids.

Opportunity is always under our feet. We dont have to go anywhere. All we need to do is recognize it. When people dont know how to recognize opportunity, they complain of noise when it knocks. The same opportunity never knocks twice. The next one may be better or worse, but it is never the same one.

Everything that we enjoy is a result of someones hard work. Some work is visible and other work goes unseen, but both are equally important. Some people stop working as soon as they find a job. Regardless of the unemployment statistics, it is hard to find good people to work. Many people dont understand the difference between idle time and leisure time. Idle time amounts to wasting or stealing time; leisure time is earned. Procrastinating amounts to not working. Excellence is not luck; it is the result of a lot of hard work and practice. Hard work and practice make a person better at whatever he is doing.

I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Parents do not have the courage to say no to certain things that their children demand. They are rather scared of their children.

Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.

Money is a very important tool to make a big difference in peoples life. It is positive or negative depending on the values.