Famous Quotes by Great Indian Freedom

Fighters
. 'Apparently, I've acted like a terrorist. But I'm not a terrorist.'
Bhagat Singh
1.One individual may die for an idea; but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a
thousand lives. That is how the wheel of evolution moves on and the ideas and dreams of
one nation are bequeathed to the next
2.. "Tum Mujhe Khoon Do main Tumhe Ajadi Doonga". (Give me blood and I will give you
freedom.)
3. "Delhi Chalo"
Subhash Chandra Bose
1. 'Whatever difficulties we may face, we must never give up the quest for truth, which alone
is God himself.'
2. 'Do or die'
3. 'Quit India'
4. 'Action expresses priorities'
5. 'An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind'
6.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of
nonviolence to cover impotence
Mahatma Gandhi

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
Mother, I bow to thee! Rich with thy hurrying streams, Bright with orchard gleams, Cool with
thy winds of delight, Green fields waving , Mother of might, Mother free. Glory of moonlight
dreams, Over thy branches and lordly streams, Clad in thy blossoming trees, Mother, giver
of ease, Laughing low and sweet! Mother I kiss thy feet, Speaker sweet and low! Mother, to
thee I bow.
Bankim Chandra Chaterjee

1. The Government which attacks its own innocent subjects has no claim to be called a
civilised government. Bear in mind, such a government does not survive long. I declare that
the blows struck at me will be the last nails in the coffin of the British rule in India.

2. If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines
printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and
Education for all
3. Since the cruel killing of cows and other animal have commenced, I have anxiety for
the future generation.
4. I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.
Lala Lajpat Rai

"Satyameva Jayathe" (Truth alone will win).

Madan Mohan Malaviya

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Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan

Lal Bahadur Shastri

'The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure. The

kingdom of heaven is within us but only pure heart can see the
'king'
1.

2. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on
that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that
idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

3. We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think.
Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
4. You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
5. You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make
you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands
before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

6. If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is

simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

7.The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be
purified, and God will be in them.

8. Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own
highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible
to the Truth.

9.The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body,
the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him
- that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I
am free.
10. Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest
heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak,
or others are weak.
11. The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
12. All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness
is the secret of everything.
13. Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in
every living being.
14. Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot,
fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
15. Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
16. God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this
and next life.
17.When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual
physical or mental state.
18. Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
19. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am
sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have
vanished.

20. The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest
error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a
miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and
that.
21.That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is
something behind the will which is free.
22. As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the
sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all
lead to God.
23. The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become
of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
24. May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the
Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father
in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.
Swami Vivekananda

Annie Besant Quotes

1. India demands Home Rule for two reasons, one essential and vital, the other less important
but necessary: Firstly, because Freedom is the birthright of every Nation; secondly, because
her most important interests are now made subservient to the interests of the British Empire
without her consent, and her resources are not utilised for her greatest needs.
2.for under the soft, loving, pliable girl there lay hidden, as much unknown to herself as to
her surroundings, a woman of strong dominant will, strength that panted for expression and
rebelled against restraint, fiery and passionate emotions that were seething under compression
a most undesirable partner to sit in the ladys arm-chair on the domestic rug before the fire.
3. Against the teachings of eternal torture, of the vicarious atonement, of the infallibility of
the Bible, I levelled all the strength of my brain and tongue, and I exposed the history of the
Christian Church with unsparing hand, its persecutions, its religious wars, its cruelties, its
oppressions.
4. (On H.P.B) And we, who lived around her, who in closest intimacy watched her day after
day, we bear witness to the unselfish beauty of her life, the nobility of her character, and we
lay at her feet our most reverent gratitude for knowledge gained, lives purified, strength
developed.
5. And thus I came through storm to peace, not to the peace of an untroubled sea of outer
life, which no strong soul can crave, but to an inner peace that outer troubles may not avail to

rufflea peace which belongs to the eternal not to the transitory, to the depths not to the
shallows of life.
6. I presume that very few men and very few women would be willing to go and catch hold
either sheep or of oxen and themselves slaughter the creatures in order that they may eat. []
Now, I venture to submit that if people want to eat meat, they should kill the animals for
themselves, that they have no right to degrade other people by work of that sort. Nor should
they say that if they did not do it the slaughter would still go on. [] Every person who eats
meat takes a share in that degradation of his fellow-men; on him and on her personally lies
the share, and personally lies the responsibility.
7.But do you mean to tell me that the man who in the full flush of youthful vigour, a young
man of four and twenty [24], married a woman much his senior, and remained faithful to her
for six and twenty years, at fifty years of age when the passions are dying married for lust and
sexual passion? Not thus are mens lives to be judged. And you look at the women whom he
married, you will find that by every one of them an alliance was made for his people, or
something was gained for his followers, or the woman was in sore need of protection.
8.An imperious necessity forces me to speak the truth, as I see it, whether the speech please
or displease, whether it bring praise or blame. That one loyalty to Truth I must keep stainless,
whatever friendships fail me or human ties be broken. She may lead me into the wilderness,
yet I must follow her; she may strip me of all love, yet I must pursue her; though she slay me,
yet will I trust in her; and I ask no other epitaph on my tomb but
9.Mysticism is the realisation of God, of the Universal Self. It is attained either as a
realisation of God outside the Mystic, or within himself. In the first case, it is usually reached
from within a religion, by exceptionally intense love and devotion, accompanied by purity of
life, for only the pure in heart shall see God.
10. The true Mystic, realising God, has no need of any Scriptures, for he has touched the
source whence all Scriptures flow.
Annie Besant

MOTHER TERESA QUOTES

1. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more
hurt, only more love.
2. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
3. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of
love.
4. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we
put in that action.

5. We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is
the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence;
see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need
silence to be able to touch souls.
6. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving
happier.
7. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
8.If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each
other.
9.We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless.
The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.
We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
10.Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is
a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has
nothing to eat.
11. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for
bread.
12.Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to
the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the
humble work.

13.We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would
be less because of that missing drop.

14.The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her
own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing
between.
15. Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money
can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love
everywhere you go.
16. Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of
understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God the rest will be given.
17. If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a
lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

18. Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we
see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of
them.
19. There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the
work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we
do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
20. There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must
have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people
throwing away things that we could use.

MOTHER TERESA