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Indian Independence: TV stars share their favourite quotes

As the occasion of Independence Day is nearby telly celebs recall the motivational, inspirational and revolutionary quotes said by the famous personalities and legends. Independence Day of India is celebrated on 15th August every year. They remember their school Competitions for which they use to learn the slogan said by freedom fighters.

Devoleena Bhattacharjee: Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge… At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. – Jawaharlal Nehru

Shubhangi Atre: Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood… will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic. – Indira Gandhi

Manu Punjabi: How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master’s bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done. – Mahatma Gandhi

Manish Goplani: One individual may die for an idea; but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. That is how the wheel of evolution moves on and the ideas and dreams of one nation are bequeathed to the next – Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

Tanya Sharma: Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. – Abraham Lincoln

Mahika Sharma: At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity. – Jawaharlal Nehru

Abhinav Kapoor: The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure. The kingdom of heaven is within us but only pure heart can see the ‘king’! – Bhagat Singh

Paras Babbar: I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile. – B.R. Ambedkar

Yuvika Chaudhary: Whatever difficulties we may face, we must never give up the quest for truth, which alone is God himself. – Bal Gangadhar Tilak