Babur quotes

“Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye. We conquered the world with bravery and might, but we did not take it with us to the grave.”
-- Babur

Source : Babur (Emperor of Hindustan), Wheeler McIntosh Thackston (2002). “The Baburnama: memoirs of Babur, prince and emperor”, Modern Library

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“My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant”
-- Babur

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“Most men, however brave, have some anxiety or fear in them.”
-- Babur

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“Wait not while your foe fits arrow to bowstring when you can send your own arrow into him.”
-- Babur

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“You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.”

“Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality from Allah, and he is only His powerless and compelled means.”

“How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.”

“Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”

“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”

“She turned to the sunlight     And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor:     "Winter is dead.”

“The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.”

“I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.”

“To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.”

“The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.”