Top 50 Sudha Murty Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Vision without action is merely a dream; action without vision is merely passing time; but vision and action together can change the world.”

— Sudha Murty

2. “Many a times there is no perfect solution for a given problem. No solution is also a solution. Everything depends upon how you look at it. We make judgements on others depending upon what we think of them.”

— Sudha Murty

3. “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.”

— Sudha Murty

4. “Usually, people who are sensitive need more time to understand the real world.”

— Sudha Murty

5. “Confidence doesn’t mean that everything will go our way. It simply gives us the ability to accept failures that we will inevitably meet on our path and move forward with hope.”

— Sudha Murty

6. “If you try to please everyone, you will please no one. It is impossible to lead your life for others’ happiness.”

— Sudha Murty

7. “A true leader leads with affection and not power.”

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8. “Your best friend is yourself and your worst enemy is yourself.”

— Sudha Murty

9. “A fire cannot be extinguished with another fire. It is only water that can make a difference.”

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10. “Who is the best friend to a man and a woman?” The answer is: “A wife to her husband and a husband to his wife.”

— Sudha Murty

11. “We all lose a few battles in our lives, but we can win the war.”

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12. “Men can do certain things well and women other things. Men and women are complementary to each other. One need not prove one’s strength.”

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13. “You should not be so sensitive. Sensitive people suffer a lot in life.”

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14. “Life after marriage is a battle. Only a few are truly lucky.”

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15. “When a doctor makes a mistake, a person goes six feet below the ground. When a judge makes a mistake, a person is hung six feet above the ground. But when a teacher makes a mistake, the entire batch of students is destroyed. Don’t ever look down on teachers.”

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16. “We should always have some aim in life which we must try to achieve while being of help to others.”

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17. “Each patient is precious. Be careful. If a patient dies, it is just one more hospital death for the doctor. But for the unfortunate family, it is a permanent loss.”

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18. “Give when you take; do not take without giving.”

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19. “When you come across difficulties, you have to grow bigger than the problem. You have that capacity within you, but you are not aware of it. If you become bigger, difficulties will look smaller than you, and you can solve them easily. If you become smaller than the difficulties, they will look like mountains and crush you. This is the theory I have followed in life.”

— Sudha Murty

20. “Money should come slowly over a period of time. Then only does one respect it. Whether it’s a man or a woman, earning too much money in too short a period is as bad as excess liquor.”

— Sudha Murty

21. “Rich or poor, it is good to do our own work and be fit.”

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22. “There is a difference between loneliness and solitude. Loneliness is boring, whereas in solitude you can inspect and examine your deeds and your thoughts.”

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23. “Ugly ducklings often turn into beautiful swans when they are tested.”

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24. “In life, some failures are essential. Repeated success makes a person arrogant, whereas occasional failures are essential to become mature.”

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25. “Experience has taught me that honesty is not the mark of any particular class nor is it related to education or wealth. It cannot be taught at any university. In most people, it springs naturally from the heart.”

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26. “I realized then that only diseases and not honesty and integrity are passed down to the next generation through genes.”

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27. “In an effort to teach myself self-restraint and self-control, I decided that until I completed my engineering degree, I would wear only white saris, refrain from sweets, sleep on a mat and take baths with cold water. I aimed to become self-sufficient; I would be my best friend and my worst enemy. I didn’t know then that such a quote already existed in the Bhagavad Gita where Krishna says, ‘Atma aiva hi atmano bandhu aatma aiva ripu atmanah’.”

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28. “It is very difficult to earn trust. It takes years to build and it can be destroyed in an instant by one bad deed. Trust requires an enormous amount of integrity and you have to prove every time that you are worthy of it. I am very grateful to our society and community.”

— Sudha Murty

29. “Achievement is the product of many factors and not of hard work alone. One requires the right opportunity, the right people to work with and the right timing. Maybe there is an element of luck too.”

— Sudha Murty

30. “O God, I don’t need a kingdom nor do I desire to be an emperor. I don’t want rebirth or the golden vessels or heaven. I don’t need anything from you. O Lord, if you want to give me something, then give me a soft heart and hard hands, so that I can wipe the tears of others.”

— Sudha Murty

31. “With my experience in life, I want to tell you that having good relationships, compassion and peace of mind is much more important than achievements, awards, degrees or money.”

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32. “In this life everything perishes over a period of time. Whether it be diamond, beauty, gold or even land. Only one thing withstands this destruction. It is knowledge. The more you give the more you get.”

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33. “Most people do not have the same values when they get money. Money changes a person completely. Very few people can withstand the lure of money and they are difficult to find. I have learnt that wherever there is money, people like to take advantage of the situation and maximize their return.”

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34. “We can give our children only two things in life which are essential. Strong roots and powerful wings. Then they may fly anywhere and live independently. Of all the luxuries in life, the greatest luxury is getting freedom of the right kind.”

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35. “At twenty, if you are not an idealist, then you don’t have a heart. And if you continue being an idealist at forty, then you don’t have a brain.”

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36. “It is better to be worn out than to be rusted.”

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37. “In today’s politics, everything was an act but no actor was permanent.”

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38. “Freedom to choose your own life; freedom to pursue your own interest; freedom to enjoy your own likes, provided they are not harmful to you and the society. I feel I was very fortunate to grow up with so much of freedom, like a tree in the forest.”

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39. “When daughters grow up, they become good friends to mothers but when young boys grow up, they become strangers.”

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40. “She says the secret to her positivity lies in the simplest of things: gratitude for each and every simple pleasure of life.”

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41. “Of the thousands of flowers that blossom on a tree only a few will bear fruit. And out of those few fruits, insects and squirrels will eat some. The tree does not keep anything for itself. Does that mean that the life of the tree is wasted?”

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42. “A student’s life is like the desert, examinations are the hot sun, difficulties are like the warm sand and study is like hunger and thirst. As a student you have to travel all alone collecting knowledge and skill the way the boy in the story collected stones. The more you collect the better is the life you lead later.”

— Sudha Murty

43. “One day, Ajji was sitting and stitching a tear in an old sari. The children came and sat around her. The holidays were finishing and they did not want to be away from her for even a minute. Meenu and Krishna affectionately put their arms.”

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44. “I can give you many examples of people who may not have studied much but have done well for themselves because they believed they could.”

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45. “Our ancestors have taught us in the Vedas that one should, Donate with kind words. Donate with happiness. Donate with sincerity. Donate only to the needy. Donate without expectation because it is not a gift. It is a duty. Donate with your wife’s consent. Donate to other people without making your dependents helpless. Donate without caring for caste, creed and religion. Donate so that the receiver prospers.”

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46. “It is not the food, nor the ornaments, nor the house, but a host’s genuine warmth that puts guests at ease and opens the gateway to friendship, irrespective of the status, age, gender and language.”

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47. “I knew then that to come up in life you require talent, hard work, aggression and connections.”

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48. “The events might have taken place twelve centuries back, but when I closed my eyes, I could visualize many things. It made me very emotional. Later, when I grew up, I became passionate about history and started detaching it from emotional point of view and became more aware of the facts.”

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49. “When someone gets cheated, that person gets upset not because they have lost money but because he or she realizes that they have been foolish enough to be tricked by someone.”

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50. “The bride nodded and said, ‘Of course, but where is the kitchen, the spices, the oil and the vessels?”

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