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“When a job, whether it is generally regarded as important or not, falls to my lot to do…. it assumes importance immediately as far as I am concerned. I cannot rest until it is completed…whatever service I have succeeded in rendering to the nation is due, mainly, to this attitude and outlook of mine with regard to work”

Bidhan Chandra Roy

In page=91
Remembering Our Leaders: Mahadeo Govind Ranade by Pravina Bhim Sain

“If we exert ourselves with determination, no obstacle, however formidable, can stop our progress.”

Bidhan Chandra Roy

In Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,

“Cultivate the company and friendship of people outside your community, and come to know them as well as your own. The understanding and appreciation that develop from such social contacts is the best way of removing inter-state differences, and makes life richer and more interesting.”

Bidhan Chandra Roy

In page=91
Remembering Our Leaders: Mahadeo Govind Ranade by Pravina Bhim Sain

“My young friends, you are soldiers in the battle of freedom-freedom from want, fear, ignorance, frustration and helplessness…. By dint of hard work for the country, rendered in a spirit of selfless service may you march ahead with hope and courage…Remember in this dynamic world you must go forward or else you will be left behind…”

Bidhan Chandra Roy

In page =98
Remembering Our Leaders: Mahadeo Govind Ranade by Pravina Bhim Sain

“No Gandhiji…. I could not treat all patients free. I came to Bombay not to treat Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi but to treat ‘him’, who, to me represents the four hundred million people of my country.”

Bidhan Chandra Roy

This was in reply to to Gandhiji’s refusal to take medicine as it was not made in India in page=94
Remembering Our Leaders: Mahadeo Govind Ranade by Pravina Bhim Sain

“Independence from the colonial rule will remain a dream until and unless the people of India are healthy and strong in mind and body.”

Bidhan Chandra Roy

Bidhan Chandra Roy Quotes

“Besides being a political stalwart…he was an all-rounder in a way. His contribution towards rebuilding modern India, his contribution in the making of West Bengal, can never be forgotten by anyone.”

Bidhan Chandra Roy

Rajiv Gandhi, the former Prime Minister described him in "Bharat Ratna Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy".

“We have the ability…and if, with our faith in our future, we exert ourselves with determination, nothing, I am sure, no obstacles, however formidable or insurmountable they may appear at present, can stop our progress…(if) all work unitedly, keeping our vision clear, and with a firm grasp of our problems.”

Bidhan Chandra Roy

In page=101
Remembering Our Leaders: Mahadeo Govind Ranade by Pravina Bhim Sain

“In this province…we have…refugees coming in a state of mental excitement which enables the careerist politician to get hold of them and utilize them for various types of propaganda against the government and the Congress.”

Bidhan Chandra Roy

In a communication with Pandit Nehru on the issue of large scale influx of refugees after partition from :w:East Bengal in January 1948.[Joya Chatterji, The Spoils of Partition, http://books.google.com/books?id=FjQ0iWSq2R0C&pg=PA130, 2010, Cambridge University Press, 978-1-139-46830-5, 130–31]
The Spoils of Partition

“Swaraj, will always remain a dream unless the people are healthy and strong in mind and body. They can not be so unless mothers have the health and wisdom to look after the children properly”

Bidhan Chandra Roy

In page 87
Remembering Our Leaders: Mahadeo Govind Ranade by Pravina Bhim Sain

“My young friends, you are soldiers in the battle of freedom-freedom from want, fear, ignorance, frustration and helplessness. By a dint of hard work for the country, rendered in a spirit of selfless service, may you march ahead with hope and courage.”

Bidhan Chandra Roy

“I asked at another address to think for themselves, and find out for themselves, how to get over their difficulties. The difficulties are always there-they will always be there, and I am glad that there are difficulties, for they excite the imagination and the intellect, and you can then find out the means by which you can solve the problem”

Bidhan Chandra Roy

In page=89
Remembering Our Leaders: Mahadeo Govind Ranade by Pravina Bhim Sain

“Develop your personality, so that you may leave your individual mark in whatever sphere you are privileged to serve”

Bidhan Chandra Roy

Convocation address to the students in 1956 in page=89
Remembering Our Leaders: Mahadeo Govind Ranade by Pravina Bhim Sain

“Along with independence of India from the colonial rule, physical and mental development of masses is necessary for rebuilding the nation”

Bidhan Chandra Roy

Above three quotes in Bharat Ratna Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, 10 December 2013, Global Politician http://www.globalpolitician.com/default.asp?26949-india-bc-roy-independence,

“Why should I take your treatment? Do you treat the four hundred million of my countrymen free, as you have come to give me free treatment.”

Bidhan Chandra Roy

“I will only do so…if there is no party interference. I must be free to chose my Minsters on the basis of merit and ability, rather than party membership.”

Bidhan Chandra Roy

His reply to Gandhi when he was asked to take the reign of the state as the Congress member wanted it in page=100
Remembering Our Leaders: Mahadeo Govind Ranade by Pravina Bhim Sain