
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.Rumi
What makes a quote one of the best? It says in a sentence what most of us take a lifetime to learn. Here are 40 handpicked favorites — short, sharp and worth remembering — drawn from thinkers and writers across the ages. Whether you need a nudge, a comfort or a rallying cry, start here.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.Rumi

All of us do not have equal talent. But, all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.Rumi

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.Rabindranath Tagore

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.Rabindranath Tagore

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.Swami Vivekananda

Your friend is your needs answered.Kahlil Gibran

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.Mahatma Gandhi

Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.Ramana Maharshi

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.Rabindranath Tagore

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.Swami Sivananda

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.Kahlil Gibran

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.Rumi

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.Gautama Buddha

Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.Kahlil Gibran

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.Rumi

My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.Abdul Sattar Edhi

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact — not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.Shimon Peres

Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations.Muhammad Yunus

My love, do not ask of me the love I once had for you.Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.Kahlil Gibran

Be realistic: plan for a miracle.Osho

Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.Mahatma Gandhi

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.Rumi

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.Swami Vivekananda

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.Kahlil Gibran

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.B.R. Ambedkar

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.Amartya Sen

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.Rabindranath Tagore

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.Gautama Buddha

What you seek is seeking you.Rumi

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature.Swami Vivekananda

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.Kahlil Gibran

Speak, for your lips are free; speak, your tongue is still your own.Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.Rabindranath Tagore

Peace at home, peace in the world.Mustafa Kemal Atatürk