40+ Empowering Malala Quotes and Sayings to Ignite Your Inner Power

Malala Yousafzai Quotes

• "We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced." - Malala Yousafzai

• "I think realizing that you’re not alone, that you are standing with millions of your sisters around the world is vital." - Malala Yousafzai

• "If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?" - Malala Yousafzai

• "Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself." - Malala Yousafzai

• "My mother always told me, 'Hide your face people are looking at you.' I would reply, 'It does not matter; I am also looking at them." - Malala Yousafzai

• "I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid — if you are afraid, you can't move forward." - Malala Yousafzai

• "Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman, who takes care of everyone all day long and gives birth to their children." - Malala Yousafzai

• "Life isn't just about taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide." - Malala Yousafzai

• "If one man can destroy everything, why can’t one girl change it?" - Malala Yousafzai

• "I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls." - Malala Yousafzai

• "We were scared, but our fear was not as strong as our courage." - Malala Yousafzai

• "Don’t be afraid—if you are afraid you can’t move forward." - Malala Yousafzai

• "Kindness can only be repaid with kindness. It can’t be repaid with expressions like ‘thank you’." - Malala Yousafzai

Malala Quotes Education

• "One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world." - Malala Yousafzai

• "Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human." - Malala Yousafzai

• "I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education. This is the cause to which I want to devote my life." - Malala Yousafzai

• "We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical formulae instead of flowers and butterflies." - Malala Yousafzai

• "When someone takes away your pens you realize quite how important education is." - Malala Yousafzai

• "Though we loved school, we hadn’t realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us. Going to school, reading and doing our homework wasn’t just a way of passing time, it was our future." - Malala Yousafzai

• "Education is our basic right. Not just in the West; Islam too has given us this right. Islam says every girl and every boy should go to school. In the Quran it is written, God wants us to have knowledge. He wants us to know why the sky is blue and about oceans and stars. I know it’s a big struggle—around the world, there are fifty-seven million children who are not in primary school, thirty-two million of them girls." - Malala Yousafzai

• "I don’t want to be thought of as the ‘girl who was shot by the Taliban’ but the ‘girl who fought for education.’ This is the cause to which I want to devote my life." - Malala Yousafzai

• "To me, the moral of the story was that there will always be hurdles in life, but if you want to achieve a goal, you must continue." - Malala Yousafzai

I Am Malala Quotes

• "I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children." - Malala Yousafzai

• "I’ve always been a daydreamer, and sometimes in lessons my mind would drift and I’d imagine that on the way home a terrorist might jump out and shoot me on those steps. I wondered what I would do. Maybe I’d take off my shoes and hit him, but then I’d think if I did that there would be no difference between me and a terrorist. It would be better to plead, ‘OK, shoot me, but first listen to me. What you are doing is wrong. I’m not against you personally, I just want every girl to go to school." - Malala Yousafzai

• "Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls." - Malala Yousafzai

• "I think everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. The important thing is what you learn from it. That’s why I have problems with our Pashtunwali code. We are supposed to take revenge for wrongs done to us, but where does that end? If a man in one family is killed or hurt by another man, revenge must be exacted to restore nang (honor)." - Malala Yousafzai

• "We felt like the Taliban saw us as little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He wouldn’t have made us all different." - Malala Yousafzai

• "My father would say to me, ‘Any organization which works for peace, I will join. If you want to resolve a dispute or come out of conflict, the very first thing is to speak the truth. If you have a headache and tell the doctor you have a stomachache, how can the doctor help? You must speak the truth. The truth will abolish fear.'" - Malala You

• "My father used to say the people of Swat and the teachers would continue to educate our children until the last room, the last teacher and the last student was alive. My parents never once suggested I should withdraw from school, ever. Though we loved school, we hadn’t realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us." - Malala Yousafzai

• "I don’t want to be thought of as the ‘girl who was shot by the Taliban’ but the ‘girl who fought for education. This is the cause to which I want to devote my life." - Malala Yousafzai

• "‘Let us pick up our books and our pens,’ I said. ‘They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.'" - Malala Yousafzai

• "Peace in every home, every street, every village, every country – this is my dream. Education for every boy and every girl in the world. To sit down on a chair and read my books with all my friends at school is my right. To see each and every human being with a smile of happiness is my wish." - Malala Yousafzai

Malala Quotes on Education

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• "When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful." - Malala Yousafzai

• "Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons." - Malala Yousafzai

• "The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking." - Malala Yousafzai

• "There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women." - Malala Yousafzai

• "If people were silent nothing would change." - Malala Yousafzai

• "With guns, you can kill terrorists, with the education you can kill terrorism." - Malala Yousafzai

• "Extremists have shown what frightens them most: a girl with a book." - Malala Yousafzai

• "No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women." - Malala Yousafzai

• "Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected." - Malala Yousafzai

• "I think everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. The important thing is what you learn from it." - Malala Yousafzai

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