Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

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

Muhammad Iqbal

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• Funny is an attitude.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Funny
  • Attitude

• We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!

  

  Tara Strong
  • Music
  • Scripts
  • Begins

• If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • You
  • Imagination
  • Planned

• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Fall
  • Impossible
  • Compromise

• I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Small
  • Team
  • Basketball

• All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Amazing
  • Lists
  • Link

• Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Ambition
  • Achievement

• Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • People
  • Time
  • Goal

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Love
  • Free
  • Practice

• When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Up
  • Music
  • Rock

• Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Voice

• We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Work
  • Live
  • Pride

• Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Nice

• Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk - especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering an adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Opportunity
  • Quality
  • Opinion

• This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • Long
  • Home
  • America

• Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

  

  Pindar
  • Beautiful

• I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.

  

  Kit Williams
  • Bored

• My dream role is to play in a story of how the Joker became the Joker, and I would play the young Heath Ledger.

  

  Jonny Weston
  • Dream
  • Joker

• In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Government

• Keep your eye on the main event.

  

  Martha Griffiths
  • Eye
  • Events

• I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

  

  Mindy Kaling
  • Personality
  • Raised
  • Entitlement

• This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do. . .

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • World
  • Limitation
  • Evils

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

  

  Muhammad Iqbal
  • Literature
  • inspirational
  • Hands