Bhagat Quotes

I thought about my [Punjabi] family. The only nakshatram we think about is the division of petrol pumps when we have to see the girl. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Actually the choice is simple. When your child decides to love a new person, you can either see it as a chance to hate some people - the person they choose and their families. However, you can also see it as a chance to love some more people. And since when did loving more become a bad thing? ~ Chetan Bhagat

Sometimes, when nobody is by your side, you have to become your own cheering squad. ~ Chetan Bhagat

It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas. ~ Bhagat Singh

Blood pressure check!" The doorknob rattled, as if the nurse were intending just to walk in, but the lock held, thank God. The nurse knocked again.
"Oh, shit," Gina breathed, laughing as she scrambled off of him. She reached to remove the condom they'd just used, encountered . . . him, and met his eyes. But then she scooped her clothes off the floor and ran into the bathroom.
"Mr. Bhagat?" The nurse knocked on the door again. Even louder this time. "Are you all right?"
Oh, shit, indeed. "Come in," Max called as he pulled up the blanket and leaned on the button that put his bed back up into a sitting position. The same control device had a "call nurse" button as well as the clearly marked one that would unlock the door.
"It's locked," the nurse called back, as well he knew.
"Oh, I'm sorry," he said, as he wiped off his face with the edge of the sheet. Sweat much in bed, all alone, Mr. Bhagat? "I must've . . . Here, let me figure out how to . . ." He took an extra second to smooth his hair, his pajama top, and then, praying that the nurse had a cold and couldn't smell the scent of sex that lingered in the air, he hit the release.
"Please don't lock your door during the day," the woman scolded him as she came into the room, around to the side of his bed. It was Debra Forsythe, a woman around his age, whom Max had met briefly at his check-in. She had been on her way home to deal with some crisis with her kids, and hadn't been happy then, either. "And ~ Suzanne Brockmann

The world's most funniest and easiest thing is to give an advice ... ~ Chetan Bhagat

everyone has a right to prosper and succeed through hard work, innovation and excellence. We ~ Chetan Bhagat

It's not arrogance. [Tamilians] are quiet people. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Corruption is worse than terrorism. Terrorists blow up existing infrastructure such as roads, airports and power plants. Corruption prevents such infrastructure from being created in the first place. Terrorists take innocent lives. Corrupt politicians prevent hospitals from being built, which means that innocent lives ~ Chetan Bhagat

badla desh bhagat kaa is suspenseful mystery novel it is story of patriotism soul who came in reporter body ~ Mahendra Verma

Panic does not help, even if you are unable to answer. Try to ask questions to the interviewers as well and it should be impressive enough. ~ Chetan Bhagat

This is not a story. There is no romance in here, nor are there page-turning, thrilling moments. Rather, this book is about a dream both you and I share - to make India a better place. ~ Chetan Bhagat

The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is inspired by the ideals which Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji, Kamal Pasha and Reza Khan, Washington and Garibaldi, Lafayette and Lenin preached. ~ Bhagat Singh

Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It's like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It's like sitting in a racing car but not driving it. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Collective responsibility, a sense of the greater good versus just one's own good, and a strong set of collective values are imperative for improving society. These are the aims of all these pieces about our society. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Sometimes the only way to get rid of an unpleasant feeling is to replace it with another unpleasant feeling. ~ Chetan Bhagat

I feel everyone who has a chance should step out of India for a while to really see what it is like out there. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Bhagat Singh wanted to plan something new against the British. He stayed calm for some time and studied about the lives of the protestors of Russia, Italy and Ireland. These stories inspired him for war against the British. ~ Simran

By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars. ~ Bhagat Singh

Preety girls behave best when you ignore them ~ Chetan Bhagat

I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine. ~ Chetan Bhagat

So that when man can be in great distress having been betrayed and deserted by all friends he may find consolation in the idea that an ever true friend was still there to help him, to support him and that He was Almighty and could do anything. The idea of God is helpful to man in distress.
Society has to fight out this belief as well as was fought the idol worship and the narrow conception of religion. Similarly, when man tries to stand on his own legs, and become a realist he shall have to throw the faith aside, and to face manfully all the distress, trouble, in which the circumstances may throw him. ~ Bhagat Singh

They say that the test of a person's character is how he or she treats those less powerful than him or her. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly ~ Bhagat Singh

Disappointment will come when your effort does not give you the expected return. If things don't go as planned or if you face failure. Failure is extremely difficult to handle, but those that do come out stronger. What did this failure teach me? is the question you will need to ask. You will feel miserable. You will want to quit, like I wanted to when nine publishers rejected my first book. Some IITians kill themselves over low grades – how silly is that? But that is how much failure can hurt you. But it's life. If challenges could always be overcome, they would cease to be a challenge. And remember – if you are failing at something, that means you are at your limit or potential. And that's where you want to be.
Disappointment' s cousin is Frustration, the second storm. Have you ever been frustrated? It happens when things are stuck. This is especially relevant in India. From traffic jams to getting that job you deserve, sometimes things take so long that you don't know if you chose the right goal. After books, I set the goal of writing for Bollywood, as I thought they needed writers. I am called extremely lucky, but it took me five years to get close to a release. Frustration saps excitement, and turns your initial energy into something negative, making you a bitter person. How did I deal with it? A realistic assessment of the time involved – movies take a long time to make even though they are watched quickly, seeking a certain enjoyment in the process rather than the ~ Chetan Bhagat

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff. ~ Bhagat Singh

The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind. ~ Bhagat Singh

By crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas. ~ Bhagat Singh

Pretty girls behave better when you ignore them. ~ Chetan Bhagat

The bomb was necessary to awaken England from her dreams. We dropped the bomb on the floor of the assembly chamber to register our protest on behalf of those who had no other means left to give expression to their heart-rending agony. Our sole purpose was to make the deaf hear and give the heedless a timely warning. Others have as keenly felt as we have done and from such seeming stillness of the sea of Indian humanity, a veritable storm is about to break out. ~ Bhagat Singh

Maybe happiness lies in imperfection more than perfection. ~ Ketan Bhagat

Certificates from top US universities adorned the walls like tiger head in a hunter's home. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them ~ Chetan Bhagat

A wise man can be a fool in love. ~ Chetan Bhagat

people who have made India awesome aren't all politicians. Most of the people that did this are not from the government. Whether it is entrepreneurs like J.R.D. Tata and N.R. Narayana Murthy, sportspersons like Sachin Tendulkar or musicians like A.R. Rahman, people from all walks of life have helped improve our nation. Not just celebrities, but E. Sreedharan, responsible for the Delhi Metro, and Dr Verghese Kurien, who created the Amul revolution, were all ordinary people doing their work extraordinarily well. Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda, two of the most influential figures in India's history, never held political office. Aim to be one of those people who made India awesome. ~ Chetan Bhagat

However, Americans have created a system in which wealth is created with hard work, innovation, talent and enterprise. People who display these qualities move up in life. ~ Chetan Bhagat

The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas-bhagat singh in court during his trial, india's struggle for freedom ~ Bhagat Singh

Sometimes your heart can lead you to a dead end. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Study so that you are able to meet arguments of your opponents. Equip your ideology with supporting arguments. If you oppose a prevailing belief, if you criticize a great person who is considered to be an incarnation, you will find that your criticism will be answered by calling you vain and egoist. The reason for this is mental ignorance. Logic and free thinking are the twin qualities that a revolutionary must inevitably possess. To say that Mahatmas, who are great, should not be criticized because they are above criticism and for this reason, whatever they say about politics, religion, economics and ethics is correct and that whatever they say will have to be accepted, whether you believe it or not, reveals a mentality which cannot lead us to progress and is clearly regressive. ~ Bhagat Singh

Excel in your field: Whatever you do, try to be the best at it. There is too much mediocrity all around and we have learnt to live with it. However, awesomeness has no place for mediocrity. And do not confuse excellence with elitism. Being excellent at your work is different from considering yourself superior to others. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Nature designed with a random set of genes and circumstances in which we were born. To be happy, we have to accept it and make the most of nature's design. Are you? Goals will help you do that. I must add, don't just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Life is a bitch when the only woman you can think of belongs to someone else. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Fighting corruption is not restricted to naming and shaming a few corrupt officials. If we think it is okay to cheat in exams, lie to a ticket collector in the train about our kids' ages and pay a bit of money to avoid a big traffic fine, then at some level we clearly don't care about eliminating corruption all that much. At best, we hate the politician who gets to steal (while we don't!). ~ Chetan Bhagat

When you fly high people will throw stones at you. Don't look down. Just fly higher so the stones won't reach you ~ Chetan Bhagat

There are four things a person needs for success: a medium amount of intelligence, a bit of imagination, self-confidence and failure.

For once you taste failure, you have no fear. You can take risks more easily. Then You don't want to snuggle in your comfort zone anymore-you are ready to fly. And Success is about flying, not snuggling, God said.

God sighed before speaking again. I think you need to understand how my system works. You see I have a contract with all human beings. you do your best, and every now and then, I will come behind to give you a bonus push. But it has to begin with you, For otherwise I can't distinguish who needs my help most ~ Chetan Bhagat

I observed all the students at IIT. They came from all parts of India, toppers in their respective schools. Few had come there to research science or learn about technology. Most had come to achieve their middle-class dream - a better life. And that is what the IITs promised them. ~ Chetan Bhagat

If it is too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others. ~ Chetan Bhagat

What more consolation can there be! A God-believing Hindu may expect to be reborn a king; a Muslim or a Christian might dream of the luxuries he hopes to enjoy in paradise as a reward for his sufferings and sacrifices. What hope should I entertain? I know that will be the end when the rope is tightened round my neck and the rafters move from under my feet. To use more precise religious terminology, that will be the moment of utter annihilation. My soul will come to nothing. If I take the courage to take the matter in the light of 'Reward', I see that a short life of struggle with no such magnificent end shall itself be my 'Reward.' That is all. ~ Bhagat Singh

Making a nation awesome takes more than just Twitter outrage, street protests and a toppling of governments in elections. It asks for a fundamental shift in societal values, culture and habits. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Revolution was the vital living force indicative of eternal conflict between life and death, the old and the new, light and the darkness ~ Bhagat Singh

If we are lucky enough to have good leaders at the top, change will happen quickly. Unfortunately, ~ Chetan Bhagat

How can such scary looking parents create something so cute? ~ Chetan Bhagat

I was a true atheist then and I am an atheist now. It was not an easy task to face that ordeal. Beliefs make it easier to go through hardships, even make them pleasant. Man can find a strong support in God and an encouraging consolation in His Name. If you have no belief in Him, then
there is no alternative but to depend upon yourself. It is not child's play to stand firm on your feet amid storms and strong winds. In difficult times, vanity, if it remains, evaporates and man cannot find the courage to defy beliefs held in common esteem by the people. If he really revolts against such beliefs, we must conclude that it is not sheer vanity; he has some kind of extraordinary strength. This is exactly the situation now. ~ Bhagat Singh

There are things some people can never understand.there's no point to telling them. ~ Chetan Bhagat

The day shall usher in a new era of liberty when a large number of men and women, taking courage from the idea of serving humanity and liberating them from sufferings and distress, decide that there is no alternative before them except devoting their lives for this cause. They will wage a war against their oppressors, tyrants or exploiters, not to become kings, or to gain any reward here or in the next birth or after death in paradise; but to cast off the yoke of slavery, to establish liberty and peace they will tread this perilous, but glorious path. ~ Bhagat Singh

Societies that value excellence, innovation, entrepreneurship and integrity do well. If we want India to be rich, we have to value excellence and honesty first. This is where a reset, a re-prioritization of something very core to society is required. This core is our values. ~ Chetan Bhagat

We must always suggest a way out, however simplistic it may be. It is a more positive attitude towards life. ~ Chetan Bhagat

I ask why your Omnipotent God does not hold a man back when he is about to commit a sin or offence. It is child's play for God. Why did He not kill war lords? Why did He not remove the fury of war from their minds? In this way God could have saved humanity from great calamity and horror. ~ Bhagat Singh

Crush your individuality first. Shake off the dreams of personal comfort. Then start to work. Inch by inch you shall have to proceed. It needs courage, perseverance and very strong determination. No difficulties and no hardships shall discourage you. No failure and betrayals shall dishearten you. No travails (!) imposed upon you shall snuff out the revolutionary will in you. Through the ordeal of sufferings and sacrifice you shall come out victorious. And these individual victories shall be the valuable assets of the revolution. ~ Bhagat Singh

If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free. ~ Bhagat Singh

...but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty.
-ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 1 page 22 ~ Chetan Bhagat

The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march ~ Bhagat Singh

Losers, even if they do not have a brain,have a heart. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods. ~ Bhagat Singh

Sometimes life is not about what u want to do but what u ought to do ~ Chetan Bhagat

While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt. ~ Chetan Bhagat

No statues, please. School or statue? Hospital or statue? No need to explain further. ~ Chetan Bhagat

After a long time, we have had a stable mandate at the top. If the BJP blows this opportunity, it will set India back by a decade. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Give up your holy books, and remember the Lord, you fool, and stop oppressing others so badly. ~ Bhagat Kabir

She is too intelligent to be a good daughter-in-law ~ Chetan Bhagat

The word "future" and females is a dangerous combination. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Sometimes it is hard to explain why you find a person beautiful. ~ Chetan Bhagat

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life. - from Bhagat Singh's prison diary, p. 124 ~ Bhagat Singh

Developed countries depend very little on rain, as this dependence creates high fluctuations in the output, year after year. Apart ~ Chetan Bhagat

If, as you believe there is an Almighty, Omnipresent, Omniscient God, who created the earth or universe, please let me know, first of all, as to why he created this world. This world which is full of woe and grief, and countless miseries, where not even one person lives in peace ... Where is God? What is He doing? Is He getting a diseased pleasure out of it? A Nero! A Genghis Khan! Down with Him! ~ Bhagat Singh

When a woman comes into your life, things organize themselves. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Nothing soothes an upset Punjabi like dairy products. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian.. ~ Bhagat Singh

Pretty girls behave best when you ignore them. Of course, they have to know you are ignoring them, for otherwise they may not even know you exist. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Work hard, but make time for you love, family and friends. Nobody remembers powerpoint presentations on your final day ~ Chetan Bhagat

Life will never change we should select new things and move on ~ Chetan Bhagat

Unfairness – this is hardest to deal with, but unfortunately that is how our country works. People with connections, rich dads, beautiful faces, pedigree find it easier to make it – not just in Bollywood, but everywhere. And sometimes it is just plain luck. There are so few opportunities in India, so many stars need to be aligned for you to make it happen. Merit and hard work is not always linked to achievement in the short term, but the long term correlation is high, and ultimately things do work out. But realize, there will be some people luckier than you. In fact, to have an opportunity to go to college and understand this speech in English means you are pretty damm lucky by Indian standards. Let's be grateful for what we have and get the strength to accept what we don't. I have so much love from my readers that other writers cannot even imagine it. However, I don't get literary praise. It's ok. I don't look like Aishwarya Rai, but I have two boys who I think are more beautiful than her. It's ok. Don't let unfairness kill your spark ~ Chetan Bhagat

'Revolution' does not necessarily involve sanguinary strife nor is there any place in it for individual vendetta. It is not the cult of the bomb and the pistol. By 'Revolution' we mean that the present order of things, which is based on manifest injustice, must change. ~ Bhagat Singh

If a father buys his child toffees instead of books for school, it may make for a happy child. But does it make a good father? ~ Chetan Bhagat

Imagine all the sadhus and priests of Varanasi. More than all of their devotion put together, that's how much I loved her. ~ Chetan Bhagat

LIFE IS LIVE ITS OWN..OTHERS HELP IS NEEDED IN FUNERALS ONLY ~ Bhagat Singh

Most people who own colleges in India haven't. Stupid people go to college. Smart people own them, ~ Chetan Bhagat

I don't think Indians have learnt much since that day. We remain as divided as ever. Everyone still tries to cut a deal for themselves while the nation goes to hell. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Applying the 80:20 rule, I would say that 80 per cent of our youth don't even care about politics or government. What they care about are their lives - their jobs, their boyfriends or girlfriends and, well, that's about it. ~ Chetan Bhagat

For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else. ~ Bhagat Singh

Spurring reform in a nation also requires homogeneity in thought. People should generally agree on what a country's top problems are and the solutions needed for them. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Ignore girls and they can't leave you alone. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It's ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers. ~ Bhagat Singh

Tamilians love to irritate non-Tamil speakers by speaking in Tamil only. ~ Chetan Bhagat

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who. ~ Chetan Bhagat

Listen, I don't have the time or patience for this, ~ Chetan Bhagat