The motto of IIT Kharagpur, the first Indian Institute of Technology, is yogah karmasu kaushalam. Yoga is skill in action. The line is from the Bhagavad Gita, chapter 2, verse 50.
Seventy Minutes
In the film Chak De! India, the coach Kabir Khan, played by Shah Rukh Khan, speaks to the national women’s hockey team: Aaj tum achha khelo, ya bura, yeh sattar minute tumhein zindagi bhar yaad rahenge. Whether you play well or badly today, these seventy minutes will stay with you all your life.
In another scene he tells the players: Mujhe states ke naam na sunayi dete hain na dikhayi dete hain, sirf ek mulk ka naam sunayi deta hai, I-N-D-I-A. I neither hear nor see the names of states. I hear only the name of one country, India.
The Wages of Effort
Theivaththaan aagaa theninum muyarchidhan meyvaruththak kooli tharum. Even when fate does not allow success, effort pays the wages of the body’s labor. This is couplet 619 of the Thirukkural, in its chapter on perseverance.