Pakistani Quotes

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.

I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.

Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.

People go out of their way to show the love and respect for me. It is very gratifying.

I am proud of my work for my country.

I am not a madman or a nut.

No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.