Bal Gangadhar Tilak Birth Anniversary: 10 powerful quotes by Indian freedom fighter that will inspire you

If God is put up with untouchability, I will not call him God.

It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.

The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it and carries it further back into remote antiquity.

Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, and work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God.

The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things.

If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness

Life is all about a card game. Selecting the right card is not in our hand. But playing well with the cards in hand determines our success.

Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!