Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

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• Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Wisdom, Ocean, Islamic

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• People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Animal, Men, Thinking

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• From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Time, Past, Born

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• If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Live Life, Bravery, Dies

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• Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Life, Spiritual, Struggle

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• Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Inspirational, Heart, Hands

  Khawaja Abdur Rahim, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1968). “Iqbal, the poet of tomorrow”

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• Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to our youth, since they take away the natural flare from the soul. Take it from me that all knowledge is useless until it is connected with your life, because the purpose of knowledge is nothing but to show you the splendors of yourself!

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Teacher, Evil, Giving

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• I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Lips, Believer

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• Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  People, Democracy

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• Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Philosophy, Mere

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• It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Dust, Rising, World

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• When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ego Problem

  Masudul Hasan, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1978). “Stories and Biographies from Iqbal”

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• The man of Love follows the path of God-and shows affection to both the believer and the nonbe-liever.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Path, Affection

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• I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Party, Law, Leader

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2005). “Speeches, Writings, and Statements of Iqbal”

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• If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Doe, Lost, Ifs

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• When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Philosophy, Heart, Burning

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• My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Brahmins, Spending

  "Educational Thinkers". Book by V. R. Taneja and S. Taneja, 2006.

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• A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Aggravation, Understanding

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• A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Light, History, Remembrance

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• The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Two, Democracy

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• Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Giving, Vision, Doe

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2002). “Muslim Political Thought: A Reconstruction”

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• Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Glasses, Air, Dust

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• Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Wise, Men, Literature

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• Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Passion, Men, Instinct

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal, University of the Punjab. Dept. of Iqbal Studies, University of the Punjab (1982). “Iqbal centenary papers”

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