Indian Quotes

A Treasure Trove

India has a rich tradition of wisdome which lits our day lifts our spirits. However, our digital space is devoid of this treasure trove. Is it not an irony that a country that has abundant digital resources can not bring its own intellectual and spiritual wealth on one digital platform?
Read More....

 

Today's Quote

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
Richard Feynman

You can also Search By

Topic Author Resources Time Period Country

Resources (Coming Shortly)

Upanishad
Rig-Veda
Ramayana
Thirukkural
Mahabharata
Bhagvad Gita
Dhammapada
Arthashastra
Hitoopadesh
Panchtantra
Mahatma Gandhi
Rabindranath Tagore
Dalai Lama
Kabir
Jawaharlal Nehru
Pandit Deendayal Upadhya
Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar
Swami Vivekanand
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
Subhash Chandra Bose
Gautam Buddha
C V Raman
Guru Govind Singh
Ratan Tata

Top 100 Quotes

I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.
Kiran Bedi
Never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real. Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Credibility depends on your track record whether it's an individual, or a corporate or a government.
Rahul Bajaj
The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
Kailash Satyarthi
We live in an 'eventocracy'. This is a new form of democracy where there is nothing greater than the event. Any policy announcement has so many events that people have begun to believe in the arrival of an avatar.
Ravish Kumar
Praising somebody in their presence and then backbiting are worse than decrying virtue and doing evils.
Thirukkural
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Rumi
Happiness is right here and now and the way to find it is through meditation. It improves our minds and health and brings more happiness.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The greatest danger to character comes from greed and by money, wasteful expenditure and the social prestige that is falsely associated with it.
Ram Manohar Lohia
There is real greatness in undergoing hardships for the sake of what you regard as your duty.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.
Mahatma Gandhi
The heart has no language, it speaks to other heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
Excellence of the material body consists in colour, loveliness of form, strength and density.
Patanjali
Our motivation is to help people out of poverty, not to be leading technology company.
Harish Hande
We can, We must.
Swami Chinmayananda
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
Audrey Hepburn
We do not know all the laws of God nor their working. Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greater spiritualist is like a particle of dust. If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more. He rules me in the tiniest detail of my life. I believe literally that not a leaf moves but by His will. Every breath I take depends upon His sufferance.
Mahatma Gandhi
I consider Islam to be a religion of peace in the same way as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism.
Mahatma Gandhi
You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
Ramakrishna Paramhansa
The forces in capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and poor poorer.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
The whole universe is to us a writing of the infinte in the language of the finite.
Swami Vivekananda
Remember there can be no happiness for anyone unless it is won for all.
Jagdish Chandra Bose
Include the world in your love, and call yourself a cosmic citizen.
Paramhansa Yogananda
A horse cannot be judged by its saddle.
Proverb
A man must not be judged by the nature of his duties, but by the manner in which he does them.
Swami Vivekananda
I want art and literature that can speak to the humanbeing.
R B Harishchandra
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs
Even the donkey is beautiful when it is a baby.
Proverb
Those who are pure in mind, striving through the path of renunciation (tyaga), come to ascertain clearly the deeper imports of the knowledge, which is the theme of Upanishads (Vedanta); they in the end, gain the world of Brahma, and liberating themselves from everything gain the highest immortality.
Kaivalya Upanishad
I know the path. It is sharp and winding. Like the edge of a sword. Yet I find joy in walking upon it.
Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing is a greater test of education than the noble employment of leisure and means.
Sister Nivedita
Just like a corn in fire becomes edible and delicious as popcorn, similarly a person who faces reversals with humblesness and courage upgrades one's very existence.
Amogh Lila Das
Yesterday my Blood Pressure was down, but today it is back in control because the strength of the nation is behind me.
Anna Hazare
My study of the Quran has convinced me that the basis of Islam is not violence but pure peace.
Mahatma Gandhi
Courtesy affords peace while discourtesy causes impairment.
Bhai Gurdas
Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life, making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
Rabindranath Tagore
A gem may fall on dust and dirt, but its value is never hurt.
Proverb
Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.
John F Kennedy
With every book you buy, you add a millimeter to your mental stature.
Lala Har Dayal Mathur
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
Sai Baba
Water cleans the body. Likewise, truth enlightens the soul.
Thirukkural
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs
Through tapasya, we can develop a deep sense of inner peace and contentment.
Annonymous
Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.
Anil Ambani
All the wealth earned by the benevolent by tireless efforts is meant to serve the worthy men.
Thirukkural
Man needs a Guru. But a man must have faith in Guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his Guru as God himself.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.
Thiruvalluvar
Heaven as fire is His head; sun and moon are His eyes; four quarters or directions are His ears; the Vedas that are expressed are His speech; the air is His breath; the universe is His mind; the earth has come from His feet. He is indeed the inner Self of all beings.
Mundokopanishad
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Swami Vivekananda
The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.
Friedrich Engels
There is no resting place for a nation or a people on their onward march.
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Women are the real architects of society.
Cher
Developing countries can leapfrog several stages in the development process through the application of bio-technology in agriculture.
M S Swaminathan
Rama naam frees us from fear, Ram naam frees us from disease, and lastly His name frees us from our flaws.
Morari Bapu
Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.
Mirza Husayn 'ali Nuri
Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth but already to possess it.
Romain Rolland
Let a woman gather around the helpless, let her flower in the hearts of the people, let her bloom out in all actions, sacrifices and offerings.
Rabindranath Tagore
Wealth may come today and be gone tomorrow, but good character will last our whole life.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing
Dr S Radhakrishnan
True happiness comes from within, not from external circumstances.
Jaya Kishori
Snakes are venomous reptiles. But the man who has learned the art of snake charming can play even with seven snakes coiled around his snake. Similarly, a man of realization is immune to the dangers of worldly life.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Rain harvesting should be made mandatory and should be made more systematic to ensure that every drop of rain is preserved.
M S Swaminathan
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
Karl Marx
Rules for happiness…something to do, something to love, something to hope for.
Immamuel Kant
Distractions are those things that we see when our eyes are off purpose, off our goals. When our eyes are very focused on what we want to do, there will be a couple of inconveniences, couple of things that we have to take it in our stride and move on.
Gaur Gopal Das
The best thing about being an entrepreneur is the opportunities are endless. And the sky is the limit. And it is great fun.
Karan Bilimoria
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
Destiny is the greatest power which will overcome all human efforts.
Thirukkural
...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.
Arundhati Roy
Always speak the truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
Another life-lesson: until our minds are emptied, how will we receive?
Arun Shourie
Mind is never a problem. Mindset is.
Narendra Modi
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Steve Jobs
You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?
Rumi
Death is as necessary for a man's growth as life itself.
Mahatma Gandhi
Clasping Kunti's hands in her thin, old, ivory-hued fingers, Gandhari whispered, Calm down, calm down, O Mother of the Pandavas! Calm down. Time moves in cycles, circling like the wheels of the chariot. Our life cycle is shrinking. Soon it will be just a dot. And finally even that dot will merge into the void.
Mahashweta Devi
There is no economy in the world which is a mixed economy. The question is, what kind of mixture?
Amartya Sen
Great is the hero who does not forget his humble origins.
Mahabharata
Dharma or religion which instills fear, that I do not consider that to be dharma; Religion is one which gives fearlessness.
Morari Bapu
The worth of the shade is only known when the Sun is beating down hot.
Proverb
The Self is attained through veracity, concentration, wisdom and continence; cultivate all of them constantly. When impurities thus dwindle, the ascetic beholds Him - stainless, resplendent - within his very body.
Mundokopanishad
Yes, it is important to analyse your game and your mistakes, but over analysing is also not good.
Sachin Tendulkar
Civilization should be the expression of man's dharma in his corporate life.
Rabindranath Tagore
Meditation is a personal relationship and a conversation with Him.
B K Shivani
Hinduism is a religion of knowledge and wisdom, not blind faith.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without spiritual life.
Gautam Buddha
Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.
Amartya Sen
Most people... are like a falling leaf which drifts and turns in the air, flutters and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
Hermann Hesse
There are lessons to be learnt from everyone. The wise person realises this.
Ramayana
Private schools cannot be the answer to nation's needs. Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway are leading examples where government schools are world acclaimed.
Sonam Wangchuk
Life is like a lamp flame; it needs a little oil now and then.
Proverb
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Mahatma Gandhi
Don't allow negative people to turn you into one of them.
B K Shivani
And is this Power benevolent or malevolent? I see it is purely benevolent. For I can see that in the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists. Hence I gather that God is Life, Truth, Light. He is Love, He is the Supreme Good.
Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom can exist only when there is equality in all walks of life. Without equality, to talk about freedom is to deny freedom to many in the interest of a few.
Ram Manohar Lohia
Complete continence gives great intellectual and spiritual power. The Brahmachârin must be sexually pure in thought, word, and deed. Lose regard for the body; get rid of the consciousness of it so far as possible.
Swami Vivekananda
We cannot change situations in life but we can change our attitude towards them.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
A successful leader maintains a balance by listerning to the head as well as the heart.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
We want schools and education for every child’s bright future. We will continue our journey to our destination of peace and education for everyone.
Malala Yousafzai
Any work without proper efforts and methods will fail despite the support of many.
Thirukkural

Do you have a quote to contribute?
We would be happy to include it.
indianquoteswisdom@gmail.com