“Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.”

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

As quoted in Mohammad Ali Jinnah : A Political Study (1962) by M. H. Saiyid, p. 9

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Founder and 1st Governor General of Pakistan 1876–1948

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