Indian Independence Day Quotes

• Be the change you want to see in your networks

  James H. Fowler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of human ity.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Dedication, People, Causes

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1960). “India's Spokesman: From Speeches and Addresses”

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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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• God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

  Daniel Webster

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, 4th Of July

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860). “The Works of Daniel Webster”, p.47

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• India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

  Will Durant

  Mother, Philosophy, Race

  "The Case for India". Book by Will Durant, 1931.

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• I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Fate, Japan

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.73, Oxford University Press

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• In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Exercise, Voice

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Men

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

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• A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

  Will Durant

  Mother, Race, Europe

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• To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Inspirational, God, Religious

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

  Tobias Smollett

  Heart, Eye, Eagles

  Tobias Smollett (1806). “Life of Smollett, by R. Anderson. Roderick Random”, p.163

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• If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

  Romain Rolland

  Dream, Home, Men

  Romain Rolland (1960). “The life of Ramakrishna, 6th ed”

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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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• Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Country, Father, Heaven

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.22, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Two, Independence

  Mark Twain (1998). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.

  Chandra Shekhar Azad

  Freedom, Blood, Water

  "Character: Chandra Shekhar Azad". "Rang De Basanti", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

  Albert Einstein

  India, Gita, Happy Independence Day

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• Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Sleep, Destiny, August

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  Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Independence, Mind, India

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.22, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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