The Dhaka Times Desk Coming New Year We must welcome the next year by shedding all the wear and tear of the old year, but if you start the new year by quoting famous people from history, you will start the year ahead with a new energy.
Mahatma Gandhi:
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."
Translation: Able to shake the world if you want in a calm and non-violent way.
Elano Roosevelt:
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Translation: The future awaits those who dream and strive to make the beauty of their dreams a reality.
Walt Whitman:
"Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul."
Translation: Rethink what you say... and avoid those words that hurt your personality.
Wolfgang von Goethe:
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
Translation: We always have to change, rejuvenate and reinvent ourselves or else we have to face hard reality.
T.S. Elliot:
'For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.
Translation: Last year means the language has passed in the last year but next year means waiting for the new voice.
Helen Keller:
"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
Translation: Your success and happiness will give you false assurance many times, but try to be happy all the time and your happiness and you will be able to solve any problem together.
William Shakespeare:
"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."
Translation: A little early is better than late.
Winston Churchill:
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
Translation: Change is essential for improvement, rapid change is essential for perfect improvement.
Theodore Roosevelt:
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
Translation: If you believe in your heart that you can do it, then half the work is done.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
Translation: Life is a search, the more you search here the more you will know.
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