Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Bal Gangadhar Tilak

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Last updated on April 19, 2025.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak, endeared as Lokmanya, was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and an independence activist. He was one third of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate. Tilak was the first leader of the Indian independence movement. The British colonial authorities called him "The father of the Indian unrest". He was also conferred with the title of "Lokmanya", which means "accepted by the people as their leader". Mahatma Gandhi called him "The Maker of Modern India".

Indian - Journalist | July 23, 1856 - August 1, 1920

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If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

After all, our Killers are our ...Brothers!!??

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Bal Gangadhar Tilak

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