Quotes By Jawaharlal Nehru

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

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

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

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.

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

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

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

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

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

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

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

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

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

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

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

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

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

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