Jose Rizal Quotes
Top 76 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jose Rizal
Jose Rizal Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Jose Rizal on Wise Famous Quotes.
The Spaniard is gallant and patriotic, and sacrifices everything, in favorable moments, for his country's good. He has the intrepidity of his bull.
Hold high the brow serene,
O youth, where now you stand;
Let the bright sheen
Of your grace be seen,
Fair hope of my fatherland!
O youth, where now you stand;
Let the bright sheen
Of your grace be seen,
Fair hope of my fatherland!
To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?
We must win when we deserve it, by elevating reason and the dignity of the individual, loving justice and the good and the great, even dying for it.
For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.
A revolution, woven in the dim light of mystery, has kept me from you. Another revolution will return me to your arms, bring me back to life.
I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.
God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.
Spain, must we some day tell Filipinas that thou hast no ear for her woes and that if she wishes to be saved she must redeem herself?
Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
-Dr. Jose Rizal
-Dr. Jose Rizal
I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.
Pure intuitive faith differs as much from fanaticism as fire from smoke, or music from mere noise; those who confuse the two are like the deaf.
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
Genius knows no country, genius sprouts anywhere, genius is like light, air. the patrimony of everybody, cosmopolitan like space, like life, like God.
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.
The sword must yield to the toga, Cicero had told the Roman Senate, and the friars in the Philippines thought a cassock was as good as a toga. But
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others.
Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.
Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, to die to give you life, to rest under your sky; and in your enchanted land forever sleep.
Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.
When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!
People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do, which is why they take me for a madman.
Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.
A faith pure and simple distinguishes itself from superstition as a flame from the smoke and music from noise.
Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.
I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.