139 Quotes by Pakistani authors

Pakistani quotations carry the lilt of the ghazal and the bite of street wisdom, verses of Faiz and Iqbal beside the earthy counsel of Bulleh Shah. Themes circle love braided with faith, dignity in hardship, hospitality without pretense, and a stubborn hope that outlives monsoon floods and winter loadshedding. Proverbs arrive like cardamom in tea: small, fragrant, and disarming. Expect Sufi longing, village wit, city irony, and a conscience that keeps asking for justice in gentle, unforgettable words.

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"Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

Small: Muhammad Ali Jinnah

"Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind"

Abdus Salam, Scientist

"Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

Small: Muhammad Ali Jinnah

"The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional"

Jahangir Khan, Athlete

Small: Jahangir Khan

"Words, without power, is mere philosophy"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

Small: Muhammad Ali Jinnah

"Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

Small: Muhammad Ali Jinnah

"No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

Small: Muhammad Ali Jinnah

"What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law"

Imran Khan, Politician

Small: Imran Khan

"Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system"

Imran Khan, Politician

Small: Imran Khan

"I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player"

Imran Khan, Politician

Small: Imran Khan

"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"

Imran Khan, Politician

Small: Imran Khan

"Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem"

Imran Khan, Politician

Small: Imran Khan

"In Pakistan politics is hereditary"

Imran Khan, Politician

Small: Imran Khan

"Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful"

Jahangir Khan, Athlete

Small: Jahangir Khan

"To be the best, I had to work harder than everyone else"

Jahangir Khan, Athlete

Small: Jahangir Khan

"Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan"

Benazir Bhutto, Leader

Small: Benazir Bhutto

"I am not a madman or a nut"

Abdul Qadeer Khan, Scientist

Small: Abdul Qadeer Khan

"Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

"I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Small: Muhammad Iqbal

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