India Quotes

"We must be second to none in the application of advanced technologies to the real problems of man and society."

Vikram Sarabhai

"No power is as costly as no power."

Homi J. Bhabha

"Abuse us, criticise us, but please come to watch the Indian team play."

Sunil Chhetri

"My last wish is to see an Indian win an Olympic gold medal in athletics."

Milkha Singh

"The national ideals of India are renunciation and service."

"Saare Jahan Se Achha (Better than the whole world)."

Rakesh Sharma

"Weavers, weaving at break of day, Why do you weave a garment so gay?"

Sarojini Naidu

"For the next fifty years let this alone be our keynote – this, our great Mother India."

"Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan! (Hail the soldier, hail the farmer!)"

Lal Bahadur Shastri

"At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom."

Jawaharlal Nehru

"We are Indians, firstly and lastly."

B. R. Ambedkar

"Saare jahan se achchha, Hindostan hamara. (Better than all the world is our Hindustan.)"

Muhammad Iqbal

"What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow."

Gopal Krishna Gokhale

"The future of India lies in its villages."

"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition."

Mark Twain

"We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India."

"I am part of the indivisible unity that is Indian nationality."

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

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

Vikram Batra