23 Best Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Quotes

These quotes by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel aka The Iron Man of India, tell us about the man who not only fought valiantly for the freedom of India. But, also assimilated more than 565 princely states into the Union of India. These quotes by Sardar Patel will inspire the people of India to serve the motherland through thick and thin.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel or Sardar Patel Quotes

1. You know quite well that for  Gandhiji to express a wish was almost an order.

Sardar Patel on Gandhiji

 

2. A State ought to be proud of a people who are strong and determined. There is nothing to be gained from the loyalty of a cowardly and cringing public.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel quote

 

3. Even the hardest of hearts can be conquered by love.

Beautiful quote on love

 

4. Anyone who is honest and who practises non-violence can never lose.

Quote on non-violence

 

5. We must have a clear idea of what we wish to achieve and also of the methods by which we should achieve it.

Quote by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

 

6. To cleanse the city of the dirt is quite different from cleansing the dirt of politics.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on politics

 

7. When I see the condition of this village today, I am reminded of my childhood days, when the elders of the village carried themselves with such dignity that the revenue officers sought their advice and sat most humbly in front of them. Today it is not so. You appear frightened of the officials. This is due to lack of unity amongst yourselves.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel quote on unity and villages

 

8. Stick to the path the Mahatma has shown you. You should give up violence; even thought of loot or use of underhand means. Instead, you should take to the path dharma, the path of Truth and Justice. Don’t misuse your valour. Remained united. March forward in all humility, but fully awake to the situation you face, demanding your rights with firmness.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel quote on Mahatma Gandhi

 

9. I want to inoculate you with fearlessness. I want to galvanise you with new life. I miss in your eyes the flash of indignation against wrong.

Best Sardar Patel quote

 

10. That man at Sabarmati, with a handful of bones, has shaken the Empire with his spinning wheel. That is a real wonder.

Quote on Sabarmati and Mahatma Gandhi

 

11. Wisdom will dawn on the people just as light follows sunrise.

Quote on wisdom

 

12. Freedom’s first page is being written in Gujarat’s history.

Quote about Gujarat and its role in history

 

13. A Civil Servant cannot afford to, and must not, take part in politics. Nor must he involve himself in communal wrangles. To depart from the path of rectitude in either of these respects is to debase public service and to lower its dignity.

Sardar Patel on civil servants

 

14. It would be a bad day if the people did not look up to officials holding high positions. Ministers come and Ministers go, but the permanent machinery (the civil service) must be good and firm, and have the respect of the people.

Sardar Patel on civil services

 

15. My Secretary can write a note opposed to my views. I have given that freedom to all my Secretaries. I will never be displeased over a frank expression of opinion.

Quote by Sardar Patel

 

16. The sword will be met with the sword.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel quote

 

17. Our mutual conflicts and internecine quarrels and jealousies have, in the past, been the cause of our downfall and our falling victims to foreign domination a number of times. We cannot afford to fall into those errors or traps again.

Sardar Patel on unity of India

 

18. The safety and preservation of the States, as well as of India, demand unity and mutual cooperation between its different parts.

Sardar Patel unity quote

 

19. The Communists are as good or as bad imperialists as any other.

Quote on communists

 

20. Chinese irredentism and Communist imperialism are different from the expansionism or imperialism of the Western Powers. The former has a cloak of ideology which makes it ten times more dangerous. In the guise of ideological expansion lie concealed racial, national or historical claims.

Sardar Patel views on China

 

21. The Communist mentality of “whoever is not with them being against them.”

Quote on communist

 

22. If the process that was adopted in the past, which resulted in the separation of the country, is to be repeated, then those who want that kind of thing can have a place in Pakistan, not here.

Quote on partition of India

 

23. We are laying the foundation of one nation. And those who think of dividing again and sow the seeds of disruption will have no place and no quarter here.

Best Sardar Patel quote on India

 

I hope you like these Sardar Patel quotes. Thanks for reading. Jai Hind.

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Namaste reader, My name is Yash, and books for me are like a medicine, which removes my ignorance and also helps me in behaving more like a human.Though I live in the world’s largest democracy, India, but when I look around, I realized that this democratic nation of mine has turned into a kind of feudal oligarchy or kleptocracy, where people from a particular community or I would say particular surname has hijacked this democracy, and the political parties in India has turned itself into a kind of family enterprises where the family members are the only shareholders. And I want to change this, and books are a weapon which is helping me, so that I can help others and my nation.Shukriya for reading this Thought of mine.

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