Atal Bihari Vajpayee Birth Anniversary: Here are some inspiring quotes, poems of the former PM

10 inspiring and motivational quotes of the Statesman:

• Our aim may be as high as the endless sky, but we should have a resolve in our minds to walk ahead, hand-in-hand, for victory will be ours.
• I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.
• We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.
• I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong and caring. An India, that regains a place of honour in the comity of great nations.
• You can change friends but not neighbours.
• We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.
• Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.
• Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.
• If India is not secular, then India is not India at all.
• Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.

Here are some of his famous poems

Hum jhuk nai sakte:

Daanv per sab kuch lagaa hai,
ruk nahi sakte
toot sakte hain magar,
hum jhuk nahi sakte

Aao phir se diya jalaaen:

Bhari dupahari mein andhiyara
Sooraj parachhai se hara
Antaratan ka neh nichode
Bujhi hui baati sulagaaen,
Aao fir se diya jalaen.

Mere Prabhu:

Mujhe itni oonchaai kabhi mat dena,
Gairon ko gale na lagaa sakoon,
itani rukhaai kabhi mat dena

Raah kaun si jaaon main:

Do din mile udhaar mein
ghaaton ke vyapar mein
kshan-kshan ka hisaab loon
yaa nidhi shesh lutaoon main?
raah kaun si jaaon main?

Hum jhuk nai sakte:

Daanv per sab kuch lagaa hai,
ruk nahi sakte
toot sakte hain magar,
hum jhuk nahi sakte

In 2019, Vajpayee was awarded the Bharat Ratna by the then President of Mukherjee in 2015.

PM Narendra Modi had announced that 25th December would be known as Good Governance Day. The country, as well as the world, lost one of the great leaders on 16 August 2018.

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