Reflections by Allama Iqbal

1.           Human intellect is nature’s attempt at self-criticism.

2.            Individuals and nations die; but their children, i.e. ideas, never die.

3.            Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

4.            A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

5.            Self-Control in individuals builds families; in communities, it builds empires.

6.            Justice is an inestimable treasure; but we must guard it against the thief of mercy.

7.            Government, whatever its form, is one of the determining forces of a people’s character

8.            To explain the deepest truths of life in the form of homely parables requires extraordinary genius. 

9.            If ethics is to be an experimental science like other sciences, it must be based on the revelations of human experience.

10.         Philosophy is the logic of  right, history the logic of might. The cannons of this later logic appear to be more sound than those of her sister logic.

11.         Belief is a great power. When I see that a proposition of mine is believed by another mind, my own conviction of its truth is thereby immensely increased.

12.         Our Soul discovers itself when we come into contact with a great mind. It is not until I had realised the Infinitude of Goethe’s imagination that I discovered the narrow breadth of my own.

13.         You fail in your enterprise, and now you wish to leave your home and try your luck in other climes. It is not because your ambition has received a fresh spur from your failure; but chiefly because you wish to hide your face from those who have witnessed your failure

scholar's Wisdom

1. Allah loves those who work with patience and wisdom.
2. Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
3. Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom. Thomas Carlyle.
4. The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
5. There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
6. It’s not easy to explain yourself, when you know you can do alot better than what is being asked.
7. Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
8. Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
9. You have to tread through some bad days to earn the best days of your life. If you're in deep waters, keep your head up!
10. All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
11. Everyday has it's own energy which should not be compared to another day. If you don't get what you want for the day it is because of your expectation.

Some Sayings

1.        What defines us is how well we rise after falling.

2.          Expect nothing and you will never be disappointed.

3.     No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

4.           A champion was once a contender who refused to give up.

5.            Stupid is a person who knows truth but still believe the lies.

6.            You are given this life because you are strong enough to live it.

7.           You don’t drown by falling in the water.  You drown by staying there.

8.            A wise person knows that there is something to be learned from everyone.

9.            You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.

10.         It’s better to know and be disappointed than to never know and always wonder.

11.         Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.

12.         When you choose to see the good in others, you end up finding the good in yourself.

13.         If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past.  If you lie, it becomes a part of your future.

14.         When you’re up, your friends know who you are.  When you’re down, you know who your friends are.

15.         Don’t look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.

Sayings on Sacrifice

They never die who sacrifice their lives for a great cause

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love without sacrifice.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent peace.

Quotes and Sayings

1.  To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

2.   If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

3.   Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

4.   A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

5.  The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

6.     To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

7.     A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

8.     Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

9.     If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

10.   You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

11.   A room without books is like a body without a soul.

12.   Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Quotes By Scholars

1. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. Oscar Wilde
2. Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. Albert Einstein
3. There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. Aristotle
4. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso
5. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. Colin Powell
6. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. Robert Frost
7. A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. John F. Kennedy
8. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. Anthony Burgess
9. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill, Sir
10. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.Scott Adams - The Dilbert Principle
11. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. Robert Frost

Quotes are Product of Wisdom

1.        Reason is not what decides love.

2.        Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

3.        Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

4.        The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

5.        Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master.

6.        The rulers are mirrors in which the citizens can view their own deeds.

7.        Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

8.        Sometimes the best way to get someone's attention is to stop giving him yours.

9.        Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

10.     Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

11.     Make some room, create some space, so that you can find the life underneath your life situation.

12.     The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

13.     Perfect maturity is when a person hurts you, and you try to understand his situation and don't hurt him back.

14.     The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

15.     Arguing with stupid people is like killing the mosquito on your cheek, you might or might not kill it, but you'll end up slapping yourself!