B. R. Ambedkar Quotes

For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live in glory is one mode. To beat a retreat, to surrender and to live the life of a captive is also a mode of survival.

...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.

The good life is one that's artistically made.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.

One must live well to know what living is.

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.” “The Codes?” “No. The Way of Kings.” “That storming book.

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.