“The strength of my country lies in the huts of the poor; in the villages; in the youth, mothers and sisters; in the farmers...I believe in your strength and hence I believe in the future of our country.” BelieveCountryLyingMotherI BelievePoorYouthIndiaI Believe InOur CountryVillageFarmersBelieve In YouGovernanceHuts Author:Narendra Modi
“Self-certification may look like a small vision but there cannot be a greater decision for a Government to trust the honesty of the 1.25 billion people of the country.” PeopleLooksMaySelfCountryGovernmentDecisionVisionGreaterHonestyIndiaBillionsGovernance Author:Narendra Modi
“The choices we make now will shape the future of not just our countries, but the world at large. We should intensify our cooperation in confronting global challenges like Terrorism, Cyber Security and Climate Change.” WorldShouldCountryChoicesChallengesSecurityShapesIndiaClimateClimate ChangeTerrorismOur CountryCooperationGovernanceConfrontingCyberCyber Security Author:Narendra Modi
“We are not here to give challenges to anyone, but we will also not take challenges casually. Our defence mechanisms would be the best in the world. A secure India is the first requirement for the country to progress and achieve new heights.” WorldGivingFirstsCountryWould BeChallengesProgressAchieveIndiaSecureHeightBeing The BestMechanismRequirementsGovernanceDefenceDefence Mechanism Author:Narendra Modi
“I salute the poor of our country who have deposited more than Rs 20,000 crore in Jan Dhan Bank Accounts.” CountryMotivationPoorAccountsIndiaOur CountrySaluteBank Accounts Author:Narendra Modi
“India and Fiji have many shared values, and it is the responsibility of both the countries to strengthen those values.” CountryMotivationValuesResponsibilityIndiaFijiShared Values Author:Narendra Modi
“We weren't lucky enough to sacrifice our lives for our country, but at least we can live for our country!” CountryEnoughMotivationOur LivesSacrificeLuckyIndiaOur Country Author:Narendra Modi
“Our ancestors had displayed great strengths in space science. What people like Aryabhata had said centuries ago are being recognised by science today. We are a country which had these capabilities. We need to regain them.” PeopleNeedsSaidCountryTodayMotivationSpaceCenturyIndiaCapabilityAncestorSpace Science Author:Narendra Modi
“Let us together serve the Nation. If each citizen takes one step forward, the country takes 125 crore steps forward.” IfsCountryTogetherMotivationNationsStepsCitizensIndiaSteps Forward Author:Narendra Modi
“You will see India as a country of opportunities, unmatched across the world. India can be a role model of growth and cohesiveness for the rest of the world.” WorldCountryOpportunityGrowthRolesModelsEmpowermentIndiaRole ModelsCohesiveness Author:Narendra Modi
“If we want the nation to move ahead, then we'll have to leave behind the thinking that Government will do everything...we all need to collectively devote to make our country move forward.” IfsThinkingWantNeedsCountryGovernmentMovingNationsBehindsEmpowermentIndiaMoving ForwardOur CountryMoving Ahead Author:Narendra Modi
“Even if one child falls in a borewell, the entire country gets worried; we must generate more awareness about hundreds of children who are unable to survive due to lack of primary healthcare facilities.” IfsChildrenCountryFallAwarenessEmpowermentIndiaDuesPrimariesWorriedHealthcareFacility Author:Narendra Modi
“India is a democratic country & anyone can become a PM.” CountryEmpowermentIndiaDemocraticPmsDemocratic Country Author:Narendra Modi
“The image of a country is not just about economic and military strength. The soft face of a country also makes a difference. Sports are one such soft power which can capture the world's attention to India.” WorldCountryFacesSportsDifferencesAttentionEconomicMilitaryIndiaMaking A DifferenceCapture Author:Narendra Modi
“Cleanliness and sanitation were closest to Gandhiji's heart. We will launch a 'Clean India' campaign and by Gandhiji's 150th birth anniversary, all schools in the country should have toilets with separate toilets for girls.” ShouldHeartCountrySchoolGirlBirthShould HaveIndiaInnovationCleanCampaignsClosestToiletsCleanlinessSanitationGandhiji Author:Narendra Modi
“India is a youthful country. A country with such a major percentage of youth has the capability to change not only its own, but the fate of the entire world.” WorldCountryFateYouthMajorsIndiaCapabilityPercentages Author:Narendra Modi
“The spread of yoga is the symbol of a changing world. It represents a world where knowledge flows, without restriction of country, creed or class. It represents a world where people come together across boundaries, for causes and concerns that unite the planet.” PeopleWorldCountryTogetherCausesClassPlanetsYogaConcernFlowIndiaSpreadBoundariesSymbolsCreedsRestriction Author:Narendra Modi
“Homeopathy did not merely seek to cure a disease but treated a disease as a sign of disorder of the whole human organism. This was also recognized in the Upanishad which spoke of human organs as combination of body mind and spirit. Homoeopathy would pay an important part in the Public Health of the country along with other systems. Medical facilities in India are so scanty that Homoeopathy can confidently visualize a vast field of expansion.” MindHumansImportantCountryWholeBodySpiritPayFieldsDiseaseIndiaMedicalTreatedCuresCombinationSpokesDisorderOrgansOrganismsExpansionFacilityPublic HealthHomeopathy Author:Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
“India is the most religious country in the world, Sweden is the most secular country in the world, and America is a country of Indians ruled by Swedes.” WorldCountryAmericaReligiousIndiaSecularSweden Author:Peter L. Berger
“Every predecessor has used mercenaries, often drawn from the country that they're attacking like England ran India with Indian mercenaries. You take them from one place and send them to kill people in the other place. That's the standard way to run imperial wars.” PeopleWayWarCountryRunningUsedStandardsIndiaEnglandIndianRanAttackingPredecessors Author:Noam Chomsky
“India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.” WorldCountrySpecialIndiaWorld HistoryMomentum Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“The first thing, the very very first thing, "Find out what your greatest characteristic is, your greatest undoing, your central characteristic of unconsciousness." Each one's is different. Somebody is sex-obsessed. In a country like India, where for centuries sex has been repressed, that has become almost a universal characteristic; everybody is obsessed with sex. Somebody is obsessed with anger, and somebody else is obsessed with greed. You have to watch which is your basic obsession.” FirstsHas BeensDifferentCountrySexWatchesCenturyUniversalIndiaGreedObsessionObsessedCharacteristicsRepressedUnconsciousnessUndoing Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."” PeopleWantSaidCountryAmericaPoorIndiaFatsPoor PeopleCountrymen Author:Thomas Sowell
“We must see that regional imbalances in the growth of various parties of the country are removed and all the states progress evenly. We shall ensure that all citizens of the country get full opportunity to contribute their might towards India's progress.” CountryStatesMightOpportunityGrowthPartyProgressCitizensIndiaVariousImbalance Author:Rajiv Gandhi
“If farmers become weak the country loses self-reliance but if they are strong, freedom also becomes strong. If we do not maintain our progress in agriculture, poverty cannot be eliminated from India.But our biggest poverty alleviation programme is to improve the living standard of our farmers. The thrust of our poverty alleviation programmes is on the uplift of the farmers.” IfsSelfCountryStrongLosesPovertyProgressStandardsWeakIndiaUpliftingFarmersAgricultureSelf RelianceRelianceThrustProgrammes Author:Rajiv Gandhi
“I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.” ThinkingCountryStatesIndiaCompetitionDynamics Author:Bill Gates
“India will be successful when UP, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and other parts of North East India are strengthened. India cannot develop till the eastern part of the country develops.” CountrySuccessfulIndiaWestEastBeing SuccessfulEasternBiharNorth East Author:Narendra Modi
“Based on my experience, I can say that India country can be freed of corruption.” I CanCountryIndiaCorruption Author:Narendra Modi
“China is a BRIC country. BRIC country means Brazil, Russia, India and China. This emerging economy really is helping the revival of the world economy.” WorldMeanCountryHelpingEconomyIndiaChinaRussiaRevivalEmergingBrazilWorld EconomyBricsEmerging Economies Author:Michael Anti
“As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.” ThinkingWorldLooksCountryDreamYoungNightSpaceBoysGrowing UpGrowingSpecialMoonIndiaAttractionVillageFar Away Author:Naveen Jain
“There are millions of peaceful Muslims across the world, in countries like India, where there is not the problems we are seeing in nations that are controlled - have territory controlled by Al Qaida or ISIS, and we should direct at the problem, focus on the problem, and defeat radical Islamic terrorism. It's not a war on a faith; it's a war on a political and theocratic ideology that seeks to murder us.” WorldShouldWarCountryProblemPoliticalNationsMillionsFocusSeeingDirectIndiaMurderDefeatTerrorismPeacefulIdeologyRadicalIslamicAlsControlledTerritoryIsisIslamic Terrorism Author:Ted Cruz
“India was not a pacifist country at all. India placed great emphasis on the higher value on... on violence. But it was never a substitute for not doing anything, or for cowardice.” CountryValuesViolenceHigherIndiaSubstitutesCowardiceEmphasisPacifist Author:Subramanian Swamy
“India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.” MayHas BeensSelfCountryWonderfulSelf EsteemIndiaEsteemMotivated Author:William J. Clinton
“Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.” MindCountryActionFatherHeavenIndiaIndependenceTheeIndianAwakeIndependence DayThoughts And ActionsRepublic DayIndependence And FreedomHappy Independence Day IndiaHappy Independence DayIndia Independence DayInspiring Independence DayIndian Independence DayIndependence Of ThoughtDesert Sand Book:Poems Source: Poems
“I have requested the corporates to evolve plans under corporate social responsibility to build clean toilets specially for girl students in schools. India should learn from foreign countries, where people are disciplined and do not litter in public places.” PeopleShouldCountrySchoolGirlSocialResponsibilityPlansStudentsIndiaCleanEvolveCorporateSocial ResponsibilityToiletsForeign CountriesCorporate Social Responsibility Author:Narendra Modi
“Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one country after another, like Somalia and Ethiopia, or in one-party states like the Soviet Union and China.” CountryMatterStatesPartyMilitaryIndiaUnionsChinaBritishAdministrationSovietIrelandDictatorSoviet UnionFamineEthiopiaSomalia Author:Amartya Sen
“There are highly innovative companies in the U.S., Germany, and India. And there are many stories of companies that failed to innovate in all those countries. This is good news because it means, regardless of your cultural background or where your company is based, it can become innovative.” MeanCountryStoriesCompanyNewsIndiaBackgroundsGermanyGood NewsInnovative Author:David Livermore
“My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.” ThinkingWorldKindDifferentCountryWould BeInfluenceRocksUniqueAdvantageIndiaShameJazzChinaPopsClassical MusicPop MusicRock MusicPretensionDifferent CountriesWorld Music Author:Rokia Traore
“When you go and you tour Europe, or you go and you tour Egypt, or you go and you tour Iraq, or you go and you tour Afghanistan, or India, or whatever. Governments get to a point where they're illegitimate because people just give up on them as far as being leaders who have their country's interests at heart.” PeopleGivingHeartCountryGovernmentInterestLeaderGiving UpEuropeIndiaIraqAfghanistanEgyptBeing A LeaderJust Give Up Author:Juan Enriquez
“Very often we talk about India and China, but not really Malaysia and Indonesia. The potential in the shift to the East is going to be great and very important for this country.” ImportantCountryIndiaChinaEastIndonesiaMalaysia Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India than there are in this country. We even had a woman head of state, and that's something the United States has yet to catch up with.” WayCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesDoctorsScientistIndiaMathematicianHead Of State Author:Vandana Shiva
“My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was growing up. He started out distributing films from India here in the '70s because there was no place to go for people to watch movies from the homeland. So he developed a network of actors, writers, directors, and musicians that became his friends and that he would tour around the country with, doing stage shows of the musical numbers from their films.” PeopleCountryShowsFilmActorsNumbersWatchesGrowing UpGrowingStageIndustryDadDirectorsMusicianIndiaTradeMusicalMy DadIndianEngineersHomelandFilm IndustryPlaces To GoWatch Movie Author:Meera Menon
“Recently, [Diana Wilson] went on a hunger strike to protest Dow Chemical's refusal to accept responsibility for a 1984 chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, caused by a company they now own, Union Carbide. In the past, Diane's hunger strikes had been lonely affairs, but this time friends and co-conspirators from around the country took turns joining her on her flatbed truck under the hot Texas sun, greeting Dow workers as they entered the plant.” CountryPastTurnsResponsibilityCompanyAcceptingSunLonelyIndiaHotUnionsPlantWorkersAffairHungerStrikesDisasterProtestTexasChemicalsTruckRefusalJoiningWilsonGreetingsDianaConspiratorsHunger Strike Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“I do believe that India needs a lot more foreign direct investment than we've got, and we should have the ambition to move in the same league many other countries in our neighborhood are moving. We may not be able to reach where the Chinese are today, but there is no reason why we should not think big about the role of foreign direct investment, particularly in the areas relating to infrastructure, where our needs for investment are very large. We need new initiatives, management skills, and I do believe that direct foreign investment can play a very important role.” ThinkingNeedsShouldBelieveMayImportantCountryReasonPlayBigsTodayAbleMovingRolesSkillsAmbitionAreasDirectShould HaveIndiaManagementInvestmentChineseReason WhyLeagueNeighborhoodNo ReasonInitiativeOther CountriesInfrastructureThink BigManagement Skills Author:Manmohan Singh
“I believe that without looking at each other as rivals or as competitors, in a democratic India, operating in the framework of an open economy, an open society has, I think, some significance for developing countries, not only in Asia but outside Asia.” ThinkingBelieveCountryI BelieveEconomyIndiaDemocraticDevelopingSignificanceAsiaCompetitorsRivalsFrameworkDeveloping Countries Author:Manmohan Singh
“A new India which realizes its destiny in the framework of an open society, in the framework of an open economy, respecting all fundamental human freedoms great respect for pluralistic, inclusive value system. I think that's what unites India and the United States. And I do hope that working together, our two countries can write a new chapter in the history of our relationship.” ThinkingWritingHumansTwoCountryStatesTogetherValuesRealizingUnitedDestinyUnited StatesEconomyIndiaFundamentalsWorking TogetherOur RelationshipChaptersFrameworkHuman FreedomGreat RespectValue SystemsTwo Countries Author:Manmohan Singh
“Nowhere else you will find a country of India's diversity, of India's complexity, one billion people trying to seek their social and economic salvation in the framework of democracy, in the framework of an open economy.” PeopleTryingCountrySocialEconomyDemocracyEconomicDiversityIndiaSalvationBillionsComplexityFramework Author:Manmohan Singh
“The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come. This is a legitimate ambition for China. This is a legitimate ambition for India. And the challenge for the humanity is to evolve a world system in which the legitimate ambitions of both our countries can find constructive expression without threatening anybody else.” IdeasCountryHumanityChallengesExpressionAmbitionMajorsIndiaChinaOur CountryEvolveThreateningConstructiveEmergence Author:Manmohan Singh
“There are diverse ways in which - right now, terror and all that goes with it is a prime concern. It's a concern of the United States. It's a concern of India. Joint strategies, cooperation, joint sharing of intelligence, in controlling terrorism, in making the world free from terror. I think that's the fundamental, I think, consideration if our development aspirations are to be fulfilled. And I think our two countries can cooperate.” IfsThinkingWorldWayTwoCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesDevelopmentRight NowConcernIndiaFundamentalsStrategyTerrorTerrorismAspirationConsiderationPrimeCooperationDiverseFulfilledJointsTwo Countries Author:Manmohan Singh
“Pakistan should be a moderate Islamic state. That it should be a prosperous country is in India's interests, and it is in the world's interests.” WorldShouldCountryStatesInterestIndiaIslamicPakistanModeratesProsperousIslamic StateProsperous Country Author:Manmohan Singh