Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

"Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Talking)

"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."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Peace, War, Soul, People, Absence, Mind, Nations, Serenity, State)

"Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Life, Problems, Socialism)

"You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Change, History, Faces, Portraits)

"The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Art, People)

"Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Efficiency)

"The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Society, Poor)

"The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Peace, Man, Order)

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

"The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Virtue)

"The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Attitude, Consideration)

"There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Life, Fear, Nothing)

"Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Time, Years)

"To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Training)

"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
(Related: Beauty, Adventure, Charm, End, Eyes, Open, World)

"What we really are matters more than what other people think of us."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: People)

"Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Dreams, Peace)

"Great causes and little men go ill together."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Men, Causes)

"The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Danger)

"Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Democracy, End, Socialism)

"Ignorance is always afraid of change."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Change, Ignorance)

"Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Work, Cause, May)

"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
(Related: Leader, Action, Crisis, Man)

"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."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Age, History, Soul, Nation, Old)

"A theory must be tempered with reality."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Reality, Theory)

"Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Action, Right, Satisfaction)

"Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Action)

"Citizenship consists in the service of the country."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Citizenship, Country, Service)

"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Culture, Mind, Spirit)

"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Democracy)

"Every little thing counts in a crisis."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Crisis)

"Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Facts, Will)

"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Failure, Forget, Ideals, Objectives, Principles)

"I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Home)

"It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Consequences)

"It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Habit, Acting, Nation)

"Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Truth, May)

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Life, Cards, Determinism, Free will, Play)

"Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Force)