Words matter. These are the best Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
Socialism is… not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
Every little thing counts in a crisis.
Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
A theory must be tempered with reality.
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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 policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.