Indian Quotes

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Where there is love there is life.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.