Jawaharlal Nehru famous quotes

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Life #Motivational #Inspiring

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Talking #Given #Chiefs

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Love #Life #Friendship

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#India #Superstitions #Belief

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Country #India #Citizenship

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Motivational #Hard Work #Acting

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Acting #Action #Dare

At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Sight #Dawn #India

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Dream #Ashes

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Freedom #Understanding #Democracy

The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Ocean #Memorable #Past

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Wall #History #Portraits

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Mind #Culture #Spirit

Every little thing counts in a crisis.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Littles #Little Things #Crisis

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Inspirational #Life #Beauty

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Failure #Principles #Forget

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Truth #Humble #Thinking

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Advice #Trying #Suggestions

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Mean #Eugenics #Democracy

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Leadership #Men #Thinking

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Justice #Aggression

Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Thinking #Trouble #Advantage

Slogans are apt to petrify man's thinking ... every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throwT words at each other.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Men #Thinking #People

It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Fundamentals #Human Life #Approach

You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Running #Country #Science

There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Taken #Sticks #Dignity

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized on this earth, capable of becoming master of his fate and captain of his soul.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Religious #Ignorance #Fate

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Evil #Poison #Grows

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Virtue #Virtuous #Persons

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Efficiency #Advantage #Type

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Wisdom #Learning #School

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Peace #Diversity #Alternatives

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Graduation #Time #Years

Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Eugenics #Way #Problem

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Thinking #Advantage #Force

I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Being Strong #Integrity #America

Ignorance is always afraid of change.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

#Ignorance #Afraid Of Change