Eid-ul-Azha Message to the Nation (24 October 1947)
Context: My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
Eid-ul-Azha Message to the Nation 24 October 1947.
“It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.”
On testing his vaccine against polio on himself, his wife, and his three sons (9 May 1955)
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
“What in all the world has courage to do with hope?”
Quoted by Harry Slochower in "Julius Bahnsen, Philosopher of Heroic Despair, 1830-1881" (1932), The Philosophical Review, 41(4), p. 381
Source: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30
Context: You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
“Never give up hope, try with confidence; you will be successful.”
Source: Quoted in Animation short film Try, which was written and directed by him in 2010.
Undated
Source: Conversation with Prem Rawat The Prem Rawat Foundation
