789 quotes found
“Why must I forever lose, forever forgo profit that is my due,Sunk in the gloom of evenings past, no plans for the morrow pursue.Why must I all attentive be to the nightingale's lament?Friend, am I ...”
“Would we have played with our lives for nothing but worldly gain? If our people had run after earth's goods and gold,Need they have smashed idols, and not idols sold?”
“You tell us who were they who pulled down the gates of Khyber?Who were they that reduced the city that was the pride of Caesar?Fake gods that men had made, who did break and shatter?Who routed infi...”
“And even the Angels could not tell what was that voice so strange, Whose secret seemed to lie beyond Celestial wisdom’s range.”
“Let the lament of this lonely bulbul pierce the hearts of all,Arouse the hearts of the sleeping, with this my clarion call.Transfused with fresh blood, a new compact of faith we'll sign.Let our hea...”
“This is not a letter on Pakistan. If it were, I could have written a small book entitled Glimpses of Pakistan's history. Time does not permit it. The nation is gripped in her worst crisis, standing...”
“Iqbal is one of the eminent personalities in the history of Islam. His is such a profound and sublime personality that it cannot be described and measured by only one Dimension of his life. Iqbal w...”
“One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.”
“If you are born into a poor family, if you are a woman you have seen the worst of poverty. In a cultural way in the families in Bangladesh it's the women who eats last. So if you have a scarcity in...”
“'I believe that government, as we know it today, should pull out of most things except for law enforcement and justice, national defense and foreign policy, and let the private sector, a Grameenize...”
“To me poor people are like bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a flower-pot, you get a replica of the tallest tree, only inches tall. There is nothing wrong with the s...”
“Poor people always pay back their loans. It's us, the creators of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.”
“The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them.”
“Poverty has been created by the economic and social system that we have designed for the world. It is the institutions that we have built, and feel so proud of, which created poverty.”
“I will not spend the money for myself. I will rather spend it in special business on a no-profit-no-loss policy. We will also establish an eye hospital where even beggars will be given treatment at...”
“We will make yogurt with all kinds of nutritious elements. We want to provide nutrition to the poor and children.”
“All human beings have an innate skill — survival skill. The fact that poor are still alive is a proof of their ability to survive. We do not need to teach them how to survive. They know this already.”
“Always remember, job is a wrong idea. Don't ever look for a job, always tell yourself that I'm a job creator. I'm not a job seeker, I'm a job creator. So be a job creator.”
“What happens to the rest of the world? It’s as if the rest of the world will be forgotten... This is a vaccine that is needed by 8 billion people. What happens to poor people? What happens to poor ...”
“I believe that, ultimately, the only way to definitively eradicate the pandemic is to have a vaccine that can be administered to all inhabitants of the planet... The effectiveness of the upcoming v...”
