Malala Yousafzai Quotes

If you help someone in need you might also receive unexpected aid.

I dream of a country where education would prevail.

The truth will abolish fear." When

Even if you win three or four times, the next victory will not necessarily be yours without trying.

If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?

God won't give you marks if you don't work hard God showers us with his blessings, but he is honest as well

At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

It's a kind of Romeo and Juliet story in which Gul Makai and Musa Khan meet at school and fall in love. But they are from different tribes, so their love causes a war. However, unlike Shakespeare's play their story doesn't end in tragedy. Gul Makai uses the Holy Quran to teach her elders that war is bad and they eventually stop fighting and allow the lovers to unite.

This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

Its as if you planted a tree and nurtured it - you have the right to sit in its shade.

I was ten when the Taliban came to our valley. Moniba and I had been reading the Twilight books and longed to be vampires. It seemed to us that the Taliban arrived in the night just like vampires ... These were strange-looking men with long straggly hair and beards and camouflage vests over their shalwar kamiz, which they wore with the trousers well above the ankle. They had jogging shoes or cheap plastic sandals on their feet, and sometimes stockings over their heads with holes for their eyes, and they blew their noses dirtily into the ends of their turbans ...

I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls.

How can we do that?" I replied. "You were the one who said if we believe in something greater than our

Eid happens twice a year - Eid ul-Fitr or "Small Eid" marks the end of the Ramadan fasting month, and Eid ul-Azha or "Big Eid" commemorates the Prophet Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son Ismail to God.

Rather I receive your bullet riddled body with honor that us of your cowardliness on the battlefield.

How great God is! He has given us eyes to see the beauty of the world, hands to touch it, a nose to experience all its fragrance, and a heart to appreciate it all. But we don't realize how miraculous our senses are until we lose one.

Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.

If Christians, Hindus or Jews are really our enemies, as so many say, why are we Muslims fighting with each other?

For us girls that doorway was like a magical entrance to our own special world. As we skipped through, we cast off our headscarves like winds puffing away clouds to make way for the sun then ran helter-skelter up the steps. At the top of the steps was an open courtyard with doors to all the classrooms.

The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.

It's horrible to feel unworthy in the eyes of your parents.

I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.

Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it.

There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.

Like my father I've always been a daydreamer, and sometimes I'd imagine that on the way home a terrorist might jump out and shoot me on those steps. I wondered what I would do. Maybe I'd take off my shoes and hit him, but then I'd think if I did that there would be no difference between me and a terrorist. It would be better to plead, OK, shoot me, but first listen to me. What you are doing is wrong. I'm not against you personally, I just want every girl to go to school.

I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.

The Taliban should keep it in mind that one of us has to die one day. And if I die early, it does not matter. I will continue my campaign and I'm going back to Pakistan as soon as possible. And I want to be a politician. And, through politics, I am going to serve my mission, and I'm going to work for education for every child.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We are stronger than fear, hatred, violence and poverty.

I know the importance of education because my pens and books were taken from me by force,

I want to serve. I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated.

When we imagine the power of all our sisters standing together on the shoulders of a quality education - our joy knows no bounds.

I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

Many girls do not go to school because of poverty.

I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.

Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen.

And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.

Someone gave me a copy of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, a fable about a shepherd boy who travels to the Pyramids in search of treasure when all the time it's at home. I loved that book and read it over and over again. 'When you want something all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it,' it says. I don't think that Paulo Coelho had come across the Taliban or our useless politicians.

I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.

I believe in the power of the voice of women.

Son, may you be the star in the sky of knowledge,' he used to say. We

I think everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. The important thing is what you learn from it.

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.

I had been born into a sort of democracy in which for ten years Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif kept replacing each other, none of their governments ever completing a term and always accusing each other of corruption.

We must believe in the power and strength of our words. Our words can change the world.

It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.

I would tell him that shoot me but first listen to me. And I would tell him that education is my right and education is the right of your daughter and son a well. And I'm speaking up for them. I'm speaking up for peace.

When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.

Lincoln also wrote in the letter to his son's teacher, Teach him how to gracefully lose.

Learn the literal meaning of the [Arabic] words; don't follow his explanations and interpretations. Only learn what God says. His words are divine messages, which you are free to interpret.

They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed. And out of that silence came thousands of voices. The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.

I am not against anyone, neither am I here to speak in terms of personal revenge against the Taliban or any other terrorist group. I'm here to speak up for the right of education for every child. I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all terrorists and extremists.

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

Which we believe should be part of Pakistan not India as its population is mostly Muslim.

I am proud to be a girl, and I know that girls can change the world,

I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.

Yet my father remained hopeful and believed there would be a day when there was an end to the destruction. What really depressed him was the looting of the destroyed schools - the furniture, the books, the computers, were all stolen by local people. He cried when he heard this.

I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.

We are human behind and this part of our human nature that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands. In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, and that time I realized that education is very important, and education is the power for women. And that's why the terrorists are afraid of education. They do not want women to get education because then women will become more powerful.

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.

I want world leaders to choose books over bullets ... We can afford to give every girl 12 years of free education. It is absolutely in our power, and when we do, we will realize a whole new world of possibility.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education and survived, in her keynote speech to the United Nations, 12th July 2013.

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

It seemed to me that everyone knows they will die one day. My feeling was nobody can stop death; it doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or cancer. So I should do whatever I want to do.

After the PM presented me with the award and cheque, I presented him with a long list of demands.

We are told that Swat is being sacrificed for the sake of Pakistan, but no one and nothing should be sacrificed for the state. A state is like a mother, and a mother never deserts or cheats her children.

I was reminded of our history lessons, in which we learned about the loot or bounty an army enjoys when a battle is won. I began to see the awards and recognition just like that. They were little jewels without much meaning. I needed to concentrate on winning the war.

That's when he lifted up a black pistol. I later learned it was a Colt .45. Some of the girls screamed. Moniba tells me I squeezed her hand.

I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

the belief in one God; namaz, or prayers five times a day; giving zakat, or alms; roza, fasting from dawn till sunset during the month of Ramadan; and Haj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, which every able-bodied Muslim should do once in their lifetime.

To sit down on a chair and read my books with all my friends at school is my right. To see each and every human being with a smile of happiness is my wish. I am Malala. My world has changed but I have not.

If we want to end terrorism we need to bring quality education so we defeat the mindset of terrorism mentality and of hatred.

Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.

As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a scrap of paper with a nail to account for the oranges she had sold as she could not read or write. I took a photo of her and vowed I would do everything in my power to help educate girls just like her. This was the war I was going to fight.

If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

I wasn't scared, but I had started making sure the gate was locked at night and asking God what happens when you die.

When I was around four years old I asked my father, "Aba, what color are you?" He replied, "I don't know, a bit white, a bit black." "It's like when one mixes milk with tea," I said. He laughed a lot, but as a boy he had been so self-conscious about being dark-skinned that he went to the fields to get buffalo milk to spread on his face, thinking it would make him lighter. It was only when he met my mother that he became comfortable in his own skin. Being loved by such a beautiful girl gave him confidence.

Why should I lose character for a few metal trinkets?

I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.

I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns.

There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

Some people are afraid of ghosts, some of spiders or snakes - in those days we were afraid of our fellow human beings.

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.' I

I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.

And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

But even if there were no threat, I believe that I must get an education to strengthen myself for the fight I will surely have against ignorance and terrorism.

I don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.

I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.

I couldn't understand what the Taliban were trying to do. "They are abusing our religion," I said in interviews. "How will you accept Islam if I put a gun to your head and say Islam is the true religion? If they want every person in the world to be Muslim, why don't they show themselves to be good Muslims first?

I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.

Now, every morning when I open my eyes, I long to see my old room full of my things, my clothes all over the floor and my school prizes on the shelves.

Life isn't just about taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide.

We Pashtuns love shoes but don't love the cobbler; we love our scarves and blankets but do not respect the weaver. Manual workers made a great contribution to our society but received no recognition, and this is the reason so many of them joined the Taliban - to finally achieve status and power.