Top 200 Malala Yousafzai Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “I think everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. The important thing is what you learn from it.”

— Malala Yousafzai

103. “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

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

— Malala Yousafzai

105. “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

106. “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

107. “I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.”

— Malala Yousafzai

108. “I have a new dream I must be a politician to save this country. There are so many crises in our country. I want to remove these crises.”

— Malala Yousafzai

109. “My father was convinced the Taliban would hunt him down and kill him, but he again refused security from the police. ‘If you go around with a lot of security the Taliban will use Kalashnikovs or suicide bombers and more people will be killed,’ he said. ‘At least I’ll be killed alone.’”

— Malala Yousafzai

110. “So today, we call upon the world leaders to change their strategic policies in favor of peace and prosperity. We call upon the world leaders that all of these deals must protect women and children’s rights. A deal that goes against the rights of women is unacceptable.”

— Malala Yousafzai

111. “He relayed a saying from a story his father used to tell him: “A child is a child when he’s a child, even if he’s a prophet.”

— Malala Yousafzai

112. “My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives.”

— Malala Yousafzai

113. “They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed. And out of that silence came thousands of voices. The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.”

— Malala Yousafzai

114. “People say Malala’s voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala’s voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala’s voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women’s rights, and peace.”

— Malala Yousafzai

115. “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

116. “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

117. “Is Islam such a weak religion that it cannot tolerate a book written against it? Not my Islam!”

— Malala Yousafzai

118. “Kindness can only be repaid with kindness. It can’t be repaid with expressions like ‘thank you’ and then forgotten.”

— Malala Yousafzai

119. “Don’t be afraid – if you are afraid you can’t move forward.”

— Malala Yousafzai

120. “I was named after Malalai of Maiwand, the greatest heroine of Afghanistan.”

— Malala Yousafzai

121. “People used to talk about Shabana’s bad character, but our men both wished to see her dance and also despised her because she was a dancer. A khan’s daughter can’t marry a Kahn’s son. We Pashtuns love shoes but don’t love the cobbler; we love our scarves and blankets but do not respect the weaver. Manual workers made a great contribution to our society but received no recognition, and this is the reason so many of them joined the Taliban – to finally achieve status and power.”

— Malala Yousafzai

122. “It was as if God had at long last granted my wish for that magic pencil.”

— Malala Yousafzai

123. “Because when a teacher appreciates you, you think “I am something!” In a society where people believe girls are weak, and not capable of anything except cooking and cleaning, you think “I have a talent.” When a teacher tells you that all great leaders and scientists were once children, too, you think, “Maybe we can be the great ones tomorrow.” In a country where so many people consider it a waste to send girls to school, it is a teacher who helps you believe in your dreams.”

— Malala Yousafzai

124. “THough we loved school, we hadn’t realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us.”

— Malala Yousafzai

125. “As I watched my brothers run up to the roof to launch their kites, I wondered how free I could ever really be.”

— Malala Yousafzai

126. “I sat on the rocks and thought about the fact that across the water were lands where women were free.”

— Malala Yousafzai

127. “The BBC even made a recording of it using another girl’s voice, and I began to see that the pen and the words that come from it can be much more powerful than machine guns, tanks or helicopters. We were learning how to struggle. And we were learning how powerful we are when we speak.”

— Malala Yousafzai

128. “We are told that Swat is being sacrificed for the sake of Pakistan, but no one and nothing should be sacrificed for the state. A state is like a mother, and a mother never deserts or cheats her children.”

— Malala Yousafzai

129. “My mother had no education and perhaps that was the reason that she always encouraged us to go to school. ‘Don’t wake up like me and realise what you missed years later,’ she says. She.”

— Malala Yousafzai

130. “When we imagine the power of all our sisters standing together on the shoulders of a quality education – our joy knows no bounds.”

— Malala Yousafzai

131. “He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.”

— Malala Yousafzai

132. “Untuk semua anak perempuan yang menghadapi ketidakadilan dan dibungkam.”

— Malala Yousafzai

133. “Life isn’t just about taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide. You can stay there accepting everything from the Taliban or you can make a stand against them.”

— Malala Yousafzai

134. “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

135. “O Malalai of Maiwand, Rise once more to make Pashtuns understand the song of honor, Your poetic words turn worlds around, I beg you, rise again My father told the story of Malalai to anyone who came to our house. I loved hearing the story and the songs my father sang to me, and the way my name floated on the wind when people called it.”

— Malala Yousafzai

136. “To us it’s a sacred mountain and so high that it always wears a necklace of fleecy clouds.”

— Malala Yousafzai

137. “What have I done wrong that I should be afraid? All I want to do is go to school. And that is not a crime. That is my right.”

— Malala Yousafzai

138. “What a strange world it was when a girl who wanted to go to school had to defy militants with machine guns – as well as her own family.”

— Malala Yousafzai

139. “Our words were like the eucalyptus blossoms of spring tossed away on the wind.”

— Malala Yousafzai

140. “When I heard stories of the atrocities in Afghanistan I felt proud to be in Swat. “Here a girl can go to school,” I used to say. But the Taliban were right around the corner and were Pashtuns like us. For me the valley was a sunny place and I couldn’t see the clouds gathering behind the mountains. My father used to say, “I will protect your freedom, Malala. Carry on with your.”

— Malala Yousafzai

141. “Sometimes Fazlullah appeared galloping in on a black horse. His men stopped health workers giving polio drops, saying the vaccinations were an American plot to make Muslim women infertile so that the people of Swat would die out.”

— Malala Yousafzai

142. “My father also saw the book as offensive to Islam but believes strongly in freedom of speech. “First, let’s read the book and then why not respond with our own book,” he suggested. He ended by asking in a thundering voice my grandfather would have been proud of, “Is Islam such a weak religion that it cannot tolerate a book written against it? Not my Islam!”

— Malala Yousafzai

143. “Son, may you be the star in the sky of knowledge,’ he used to say. We.”

— Malala Yousafzai

144. “Fazlullah’s men wear masks,” I said, “because they are criminals. But I have nothing to hide, and I have done nothing wrong. I’m proud to be a voice speaking out for girls’ education. And proud to show my identity.”

— Malala Yousafzai

145. “Now, every morning when I open my eyes, I long to see my old room full of my things, my clothes all over the floor and my school prizes on the shelves.”

— Malala Yousafzai

146. “Some people are afraid of ghosts, some of spiders or snakes- in those days we were afraid of our fellow human beings.”

— Malala Yousafzai

147. “No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.”

— Malala Yousafzai

148. “We Pashtuns are split between Pakistan and Afghanistan and don’t really recognize the border that the British drew more than 100 years ago.”

— Malala Yousafzai

149. “To be displaced, on top of everything else, is to worry about being a burden on others.”

— Malala Yousafzai

150. “The Taliban want to turn the girls of Pakistan into identical, lifeless dolls.”

— Malala Yousafzai