Entrepreneurship is an art. It’s a science. It’s a passion. And it can be all of these things at the same time or it can be different things at different times, but the common thread that runs through all of it is always perseverance in the face of adversity. Here are some inspiring quotes from Indian entrepreneurs that will motivate and encourage you to keep going no matter what challenges you face.

The best indian quotes

1. Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public schools to heathenize our children. — Phyllis Schlafly

2. The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens. — Michael Punke, The Revenant

3. All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian. — Pat Paulsen

4. The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us. — Thomas Jefferson

5. I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir. — Zubin Mehta

6. One guy said, ‘i wish it was ’75, we’d skin you alive, ‘ i had trouble holding back tears. i think indian wells disgraced america. — Venus Williams

7. I was crying because I had broken my best friend’s heart. — Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part–Time Indian

8. After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. — Werner Heisenberg

9. What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian. — Sitting Bull

10. White man goes into his churches to talk about Jesus, the Indian into his Tepee to talk to Jesus (with Peyote etc). — Quanah Parker

11. If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile. INDIAN PROVERB (PUNJABI) — Phil Jackson

12. There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth. — Standing Bear

13. When you go to an Indian temple, it is just to behold an energy form. You want to take an imprint of the Divine within yourself. — Sadghuru

14. Moral indignation is too precious an export to be wasted at home — Perry Anderson, The Indian Ideology

15. I used to dirt bike a lot. I can’t do that anymore. Can’t eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can’t be in ‘Indiana Jones’ and be a fatso! — Shia Labeouf

16. The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian Philosophy, Volume 1

17. Marriage is not a sales deal and you don’t have to close it as fast as you can. — Swati Kumar, The Great Indian Dilemma

18. You gotta understand, my great–grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African–American, so we all got a little something in us. — Tracy Morgan

19. The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other. — Swami Vivekananda

20. The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires. — Mark Twain

21. Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works. — Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part–Time Indian

22. In spite of minor hassles, life was good. — Swati Kumar, The Great Indian Dilemma

23. I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are. — Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

24. I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians. — Sachin Tendulkar

25. One guy said, ‘i wish it was ’75, we’d skin you alive, ‘ i had trouble holding back tears. i think indian wells disgraced america. — Venus Williams

26. It is too bad that most Olympians do not train as hard as the Lashkar jihadis whose main aim in life is to kill people. — Vivek Pereira, Indians in Pakistan

27. It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think. — Rahul Gandhi

28. Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. — Robert Orben

29. I’ve always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty–one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number. — Robert Indiana

30. And so we continued to live in fear, hoping that we would not get caught. Fear had become our constant companion at this dreadful Lashkar–e–Taiba camp. — Vivek Pereira, Indians in Pakistan

31. My grandmother’s last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance. — Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part–Time Indian

32. The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian Philosophy, Volume 1

33. Nostalgia, she knew, has the power to make you smile and also to make you cry. — Swati Kumar, The Great Indian Dilemma

34. The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday. — Vance Havner

35. Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea. — Nicholas D. Kristof

36. The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it. — Zane Grey

37. You just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world. — Virat Kohli

38. Marriage is a marriage–love or arranged. Both require the same level of commitment. — Swati Kumar, The Great Indian Dilemma

39. He was my best friend and I needed him. — Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part–Time Indian

40. I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I’m really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians. — Robert Redford

41. You gotta understand, my great–grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African–American, so we all got a little something in us. — Tracy Morgan

42. One of the things I’ve thought about ‘Midnight’s Children’ is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience. — Salman Rushdie

43. I would close my eyes and dream of something strong, dream of horses exploding, rising into the air, their hearts beating survive, survive, survive. — Sherman Alexie, First Indian on the Moon

44. As a teenager, I worked on Indian reservations, and it was such an incredible culture: the elders are so respected. — Winona Ryder

45. Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation. — Nelson A. Miles

46. Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public schools to heathenize our children. — Phyllis Schlafly

47. According to Robert, his friend Moses was a soldier in the first war, as he described it. He fought Indians and soldiers in red coats. — Nancy B. Brewer

48. In spite of minor hassles, life was good. — Swati Kumar, The Great Indian Dilemma

49. Marriage is a marriage–love or arranged. Both require the same level of commitment. — Swati Kumar, The Great Indian Dilemma

50. I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists. — Robert Indiana

Conclusion

We hope that this blog post has provided you with some of the best quotes about India. Indians have so much to offer the world and it is worth celebrating. We should all be proud of the culture, beauty, and history that India has to offer. Let these quotes inspire you to appreciate the beauty and greatness of India.