Top 80 Quotes & Sayings by Imran Khan
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Pakistani leader Imran Khan.
Last updated on November 23, 2024.
What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.
There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
I am basically a private person.
It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.
I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.
If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.
In Pakistan politics is hereditary.
People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.
If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.
Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.
The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.
The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.
Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.
What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.
I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.
In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.
They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.
You don't kill your way to peace.
I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.
It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.
The more you study, the more you know; how less you know.
The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.
I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.
You all have to make a new Pakistan. Naya Pakistan is not a slogan - it's a belief.
I do not have any fears, no fear of dying, of failure, of anything; that means I am very dangerous for my opponents.
If you have political reform in the Islamic world, the spiritual reform would follow.
My countrymen, I am wholeheartedly thankful to you today for proving that change isn't coming but it has ALREADY COME!
The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.
And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.
Compromise for your Dream but NEVER Compromise on your Dream.
Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?
I further promise you, that all my wealth and property will be in Pakistan. I will take ownership of this country and won't be like those leaders who create hideouts abroad
I will protect your tax money! It won't be spent on Prime Minister and Governor houses. InshALLAH the day PTI government comes in power these walls of governor houses will be brought down. We will break these walls and make libraries and playgrounds for the public to use
India is using troops in Kashmir. They are losing the battle of heart and minds. It's like treating cancer with dispirin.
Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.
If you want to know the reality of life, then you should travel. At first travel your country, after that start travelling the world. Travel to know your surroundings so that we can say that you are an aware person. Nature, people and culture are calling you, so travel.
I want my team to play like a cornered tiger...when it's said it's most dangerous
I am not anti-west, I am PRO PAKISTAN
I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
Without liberty I have nothing left to use except my body.
Never give up, no matter how hard life gets no matter how much pain you feel. Pain will eventually subside, nothing remains forever, so keep going and don't give up.
Talent or intelligence doesn’t matter, Its your dreams that will decied how big a person you will become
People still laugh at me in politics, they think I won't make it; but I think I will, after Harold Wilson, I will be your next Chancellor to become Prime Minister.
But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.
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