Quotes By Jawaharlal Nehru

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

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

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

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

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.

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

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

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

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

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.