Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic misunderstanding on my part. When action was needed, I was absorbed in words; for words proceeded with such difficulty from my mouth that I was intent on them and forgot all about action. It seemed to me that actions, which are dazzling, varied things, must always be accompanied by equally dazzling and equally varied words.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

Talk does not cook rice.

The greatest weapon in an ideological war is words.

Words become deeds and then meet needs.

There's a difference between rhetoric and reality.

The point—the power to hurt—of all figures [of speech] consist in the truthfulness of their application.

I have found that there are moments when someone uses language that sears itself into the head [of the listener]. Those are the moments I look for.

There is a better thing than the great man who is always speaking, and that is the great man who only speaks when he has a great word to say.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

Kennedy understood something that is not so obvious, and that is that words are more important than deeds. You can’t govern 300 million people—or 180 million when Kennedy was president—by doing things. You can only do it by rhetoric.

Talk is cheap if it doesn't motivate action.