Nation Quotes

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

It was exciting that such new technology was being developed in our nation which had become independent only two decades back. From a country that had been left ravaged by years of colonization, we had learnt to dream big and were working on fulfilling this dream fearlessly.

I would like to ask you, what would you like to be remembered for? You should write it down. It could be an important contribution, whether it is an invention, an innovation or a change that you bring about in society that the nation will remember you for.

Don't pretend to be a candle, be a moth. Know the power hidden in serving. We seem to have got stuck with external forms of politics and mistaking them to be nation-building. It is the sacrifices, toil and valour that and seldom shown or seen that truly makes a nation.

A nation with a strong base in science and technology is a nation with a strong backbone.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.