Top 200 Malala Yousafzai Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Fifty seven million children across the world don’t want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen.”

— Malala Yousafzai

53. “When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.”

— Malala Yousafzai

54. “Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don’t I take a step and move forward.”

— Malala Yousafzai

55. “I don’t want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.”

— Malala Yousafzai

56. “My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child.”

— Malala Yousafzai

57. “If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.”

— Malala Yousafzai

58. “Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential.”

— Malala Yousafzai

59. “You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.”

— Malala Yousafzai

60. “A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she’s not only a mother, she’s not only a sister, she’s not only a wife. But a girl has the – she should have an identity. She should be recognized and she has equal rights as a boy.”

— Malala Yousafzai

61. “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

62. “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

63. “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”

— Malala Yousafzai

64. “They only shot a body but they cannot shoot my dreams.”

— Malala Yousafzai

65. “I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.”

— Malala Yousafzai

66. “The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.”

— Malala Yousafzai

67. “I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.”

— Malala Yousafzai

68. “I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don’t go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move...”

— Malala Yousafzai

69. “When I look at my goal, my goal is peace.”

— Malala Yousafzai

70. “It is not time to tell the leaders to realize how important education is – they already know it – their own children are in good schools. Now it is time to call them to take action.”

— Malala Yousafzai

71. “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

72. “There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems, it’s just one and it’s education. You educate all the girls and boys. You give them the opportunity to learn.”

— Malala Yousafzai

73. “I am convinced Socialism is the only answer.”

— Malala Yousafzai

74. “This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.”

— Malala Yousafzai

75. “If a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can’t she also wear everything?”

— Malala Yousafzai

76. “Pakistan is a peace loving, democratic country. Pashtuns want education for their daughters and sons. Islam is a religion of peace, humanity and brotherhood.”

— Malala Yousafzai

77. “Un copil, un profesor, un stilou, o carte pot schimba lumea.”

— Malala Yousafzai

78. “I want every girl, every child to be educated.”

— Malala Yousafzai

79. “The best way to fight terrorism is to invest in education. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.”

— Malala Yousafzai

80. “In the future, women, rather than men, will be the ones to change the world.”

— Malala Yousafzai

81. “We must “Bring Back Our Girls” and support Nigerians working every day to create change. Please donate now to support Nigerian organizations educating and standing up for girls.”

— Malala Yousafzai

82. “I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I’m here to speak up for the right of every child.”

— Malala Yousafzai

83. “I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.”

— Malala Yousafzai

84. “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

85. “I am not against anyone, neither am I here to speak in terms of personal revenge against the Taliban or any other terrorist group. I’m here to speak up for the right of education for every child. I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all terrorists and extremists.”

— Malala Yousafzai

86. “I don’t want awards, I want my daughter. I wouldn’t exchange a single eyelash of my daughter for the whole world.”

— Malala Yousafzai

87. “They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge.”

— Malala Yousafzai

88. “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

89. “I would tell him that shoot me but first listen to me. And I would tell him that education is my right and education is the right of your daughter and son a well. And I’m speaking up for them. I’m speaking up for peace.”

— Malala Yousafzai

90. “We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don’t learn the importance of anything until it’s snatched from our hands.”

— Malala Yousafzai

91. “She explained that the bullet had entered through the side of my left eye where there was a scar, traveled eighteen inches down to my left shoulder and stopped there. It could have taken out my eye or gone into my brain. It was a miracle I was alive.”

— Malala Yousafzai

92. “Malala Day is not my day. It is the day of every girl and every boy. It is a day when we come together to raise our voices, so that those without a voice can be heard.”

— Malala Yousafzai

93. “We call upon all communities to be tolerant, to reject prejudice based on caste, creed, sect, color, religion or agenda to ensure freedom and equality for women so they can flourish. We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.”

— Malala Yousafzai

94. “We should not wait for someone else to come and raise our voice. We should do it by ourselves. We should believe in ourselves. One day you will see that all the girls will be powerful; All the girls will be going to school. And it is possible only by our struggle; only when we raise our voice.”

— Malala Yousafzai

95. “And also I didn’t want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn’t want to see my life in that way.”

— Malala Yousafzai

96. “If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become a paradise within a year.”

— Malala Yousafzai

97. “If we want to end terrorism we need to bring quality education so we defeat the mindset of terrorism mentality and of hatred.”

— Malala Yousafzai

98. “In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.”

— Malala Yousafzai

99. “We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.”

— Malala Yousafzai

100. “I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.”

— Malala Yousafzai