Quotes

Words worth keeping

2,684 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

Dream, dream, dream. Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action.

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Inspirational Dreams

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Inspirational Dreams

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Wisdom Success

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Inspirational Success

Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Wisdom Success

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Wisdom Success

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Education & Knowledge Wisdom

Great teachers emanate out of a passion for reaching out to students and helping them grow and succeed.

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Education & Knowledge

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

— Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Education & Knowledge Wisdom

Life should be great rather than long.

— Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Life Wisdom

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

— Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Society & Politics Women

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of society.

— Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Kindness Wisdom

Freedom of mind is the real freedom.

— Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Wisdom Freedom

They can crush flowers, but they cannot stop spring.

— Bhagat Singh
Courage & Strength Hope

It is easy to kill individuals, but you cannot kill the ideas.

— Bhagat Singh
Society & Politics Courage & Strength

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.