Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.

Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

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

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

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.

I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.

Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to our youth, since they take away the natural flare from the soul. Take it from me that all knowledge is useless until it is connected with your life, because the purpose of knowledge is nothing but to show you the splendors of yourself!

It is absolutely certain that God does exist.

When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul.

The man of Love follows the path of God-and shows affection to both the believer and the nonbe-liever.

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

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.