Quaid Azam Quotes

• My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Courage, Determination, Persistence

  Eid-ul-Azha Message to the Nation, October 24, 1947.

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

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Struggle, Men, Pakistan

  Speech at Islamia College for women, March 25, 1940.

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• I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Positive, Believe, Self Confidence

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

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Pakistan, Height, Sides

  Speech at a meeting of the Muslim University Union, Aligarh, March 10, 1944.

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• Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Inspirational, Life, Taken

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• Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Success, Money, Business

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• 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.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Mean, Independence, Pakistan

  "Speeches and Writings of Mr. Jinnah". Book by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, p. 175, 1960.

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• You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Pakistan, Mosques, May

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah's Address to the Constituent Assembly, August 11, 1947.

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• I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We have a great deal to do...and think that we can be of use to each other (and to) the world.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Thinking, India And Pakistan, Friendly

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• Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy; it is we, the civilians, who decide these issues and it is your duty to carry out these tasks with which you are entrusted.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Issues, People, Tasks

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• No settlement with the majority community is possible, as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Leader, Desire, Majority

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah's Address to the Muslim League Lucknow, www.columbia.edu. October 1937.

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• India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Country, India, Nations

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• The story of Pakistan, its struggle and its achievement, is the very story of great human ideals, struggling to survive in the face of great odds and difficulties.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Struggle, Odds, Achievement

  "Pakistan vote the first step on a long road" by Robert Menendez, www.cnn.com. May 13, 2013.

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• There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Influence And Power, Pakistan, Earth

  Speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore, October 30, 1947.

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• I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Religious, Pseudo, Advocating

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• Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Believe, Blood, Democracy

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• Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  People, Islam, Pakistan

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• We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Wall, Evil, House

  Speech at a meeting of the Muslim University Union, Aligarh, March 10, 1944.

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

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Worthwhile Things, Discipline, Selfless

  Address to the officers and men of the 5th Heavy Ack Ack and 6th Light Ack Ack Regiments in Malir, Karachi, February 21, 1948.

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• Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

  Stanley Wolpert

  Creating, Jinnah, Three

  "Jinnah of Pakistan". Book by Stanley Wolpert, 1984.

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• Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Ideas, India And Pakistan, India Pakistan

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• There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Two, Competition, Stronger

  Speech at Islamia College for women, March 25, 1940.

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• The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and education classes to give a bold lead for our guidance and a brilliant record of histrorical achievements and traditions.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Responsibility, Past, Young Generation

  "Some Recent Speeches and Writings of Mr. Jinnah", December 24, 1940.

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• I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Humility, Names, Titles

  "Plain Mr. Jinnah : Selections from Quaid-e-Azam's Correspondence". Book by Mahomed Ali Jinnah, 1976.

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• 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.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Friendly, Pakistan, World

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