Sudha Murty Quotes

Sudha Murty

Profession : Educator

Birth : August 19, 1950

When there is money, there is also greed. Everyone wants to talk to you when there is money. Only if you have the passion for it, you must become a philanthropist, else it'll become a headache.

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I like portraying women of character in my books. Women who exhibit loyalty and courage.

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I believe in God. I am not ritualistic but I do pray every day.

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I work everyday, but every day is a holiday for me because I enjoy my work.

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Education, leading to financial independence, has surely made women more empowered.

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If I give someone flowers, what will they really do with it. If I take food, the person could be diabetic... But books are a source of knowledge, I have great thirst for knowledge.

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For every job you require a kind of mindset. To be a teacher one should be knowledgeable. To be a software engineer you should know computer data system analysis, computer language etc. So, my mindset is not aligned with politics.

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Every philanthropist has a soft corner for one issue. For me it is health, because my father was a doctor.

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My library is segregated into philosophy, history, general reading, travel, my own books... and only three cookbooks.

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There were instances when I felt cheated because my feeling of social service was neither acknowledged or reciprocated by the second party. It is with growing age and experience that I realised, I was doing it for myself and not for others. Hence, I found my happiness and satisfaction in it.

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What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

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In life's journey, we all meet strange people and undergo many experiences that touch us and sometimes even change us.

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When Rajesh Khanna died, I cried so much, my husband was confused.

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Be unreasonable, follow your passion.

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If you are determined in your life, it is only the mindset that counts which is more important than questions like if I can do or cannot do.

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Exceptional leaders don't impart just vision, rather they cultivate the emergence of vision.

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I belong to a teachers' family and writing was my expression.

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Women should realise their strength and set goals.

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I learned reading and writing from my mother.

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I lost many friendships because of my wealth. When my friends met me, they had an agenda in mind. Just because I had money, they expected one thing or the other from me, which they didn't before.

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