India Quotes - Page 3

• Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

  Allen West

  Compassion, Independence, Together

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• Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Liberty, Foundation

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• God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Environmental, World, West

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

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• I am proud of my country. But we need to unite to make a unified India, free of communalism and casteism. We need to build India into a land of equal opportunity for all. We can be a truly great nation if we set our sights high and deliver to the people the fruits of continued growth, prosperity and equal opportunity.

  Ratan Tata

  Country, Opportunity, Greatness

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• India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other nations in space exploration and one of them will fulfil her dreams.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Dream, Opportunity, Men

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• I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Time, One Day, Possibility

  "India's man for all seasons" by Siddharth Srivastava, www.atimes.com. September 29, 2004.

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• Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?.

  Abdul Kalam

  Media, Achievement, Stories

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• China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.

  Li Peng

  Rivers, Years, Chinese

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• Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolor, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back for sure.

  Vikram Batra

  Military, Army, Soldier

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• India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Sri Lanka, Creative, Age

  "Rewriting Indian History". Book by François Gautier, p. 158, 2003.

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• A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Simple, Men, Good Man

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.99, Race Point Publishing

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• My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

  Edward Gibbon

  Love, Book, Reading

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• If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Heart, Men

  "I have spoken; American history through the voices of the Indians". Book by Virginia Armstrong, Chicago, Sage Books, 1971.

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• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Mistake, Struggle

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

  Tecumseh

  Death, Song, Hero

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

  Joey Comeau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

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• Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.

  Mark Twain

  Past, Men, Land

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• Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.

  Hermann Hesse

  Buddhist, Yoga, Men

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.60, Macmillan

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• India is the meeting-place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Sri Lanka, Realization

  "The Renaissance in India" by Sri Aurobindo in "Arya", intyoga.online.fr. August 1918 - November 1918.

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• In India when we meet and part we often say, "Namaste," which means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us�.. "Namaste."

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  Ram Dass

  Peace, Mean, Ubuntu

  Ram Dass, Stephen Levine (2014). “Grist for the Mill: Awakening to Oneness”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.

  Jules Michelet

  Race, World, Starting

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• So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Men, Judging

  Mark Twain (1809). “The Writings of Mark Twain: Following the equator; a journey around the world”, p.243

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• The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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