The term “Might is right” means that powerful people can do whatever they wish to do, even if their decisions are wrong. This phrase is mostly used in a negative sense. This expression refers to the belief that: 1) There is no one to challenge the decision of powerful people, even if the decision goes […]
The literal meaning of the proverb is that a child gets milk or food only when it cries. A small child cannot express its desires in words. So it informs its desires to its mother by crying. The implied meaning is that nobody is going to achieve his aim unless he demands it. From the
All of us have good luck and success some time or other. Nobody can be permanently unlucky. Even if he has a bad time now, it will change in due course. One who is poor today may get rich tomorrow. Therefore, it is wrong to think that a poor man will remain poor forever similarly
The proverb means that the urgent need for anything leads us to achieve it by any means. When we do not need a thing, we are not bothered about it. But when we are extremely in need of it, we are forced to find the way of getting it. Man has invented several useful things.
The statement advises us to act in time. Te bird that rises earlier than the other birds goes in search of prey and it gets as many worms as it requires. But the bird that arrives late may not get a single worm and may have to go hungry. Similarly, a person who is late
This proverb, it’s never too late, means that “it does not matter how late it is, a person should always take the opportunity to pursue their goals”. This proverb encourages us to get to work. It emphasizes on the fact that, that a new task can be started anytime and there is no need to
Children usually grow up in the care of their mothers. For a baby his mother fondly feeds him with milk, pats him and cradles him. The baby is lulled to sleep in the fond hands of its mother. The baby in time grows up into a fine young man or women, who may even rule
This proverb is used to imply that great things are not accomplished in a single day and what ever be our talents we need a good deal of time to achieve these things. The greatest civilization to appear on the earth after the Egyptian civilization was the Roman civilization. At the height of its greatness,
A straw is a frail thing. It cannot bear the weight of anything. But if a person has fallen into a deep lake and is drowning, he will desperately clutch at even a floating straw. The only thought in his mind will be to catch something that will save him. To him, it does not
What does Perseverance mean? Perseverance means persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving a goal or success. Perseverance is an attitude of persisting one single idea, discipline, ideal, rules to achieve success, to achieve a goal- in spite of facing n- number of difficulties, obstructions, hurdles, failures etc. There are numbers of