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
Topics: Beauty, Adventure
The ideals and objectives of yesterday was still ideals of today, but they lost some of their luster and even, as one seemed to go towards them, they lost the shining beauty which had warmed the heart and vitalized the body. Evil triumphed often enough, but what was far worse was the coarsening and distortion of what seemed so right. Was human nature so essentially bad that it would take ages of training, through suffering and misfortune, before it could behave reasonably and raise man above the creature of lust and violence and deceit that he now was? And, meanwhile, was every effort to change radically in the present or the near future doomed to failure.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Action
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Risk
What we need is a generation of peace.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Peace
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Facts
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Advice
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Satisfaction, Action
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
Topics: Serenity, Peace
A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Getting Going, Inaction, Procrastination
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failings than to point out those of another.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Courage, History
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
Topics: Intuition
Every little thing counts in a crisis.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Trouble
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Defeat
A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Wildlife, One liners
The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Change
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Culture
I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Adversity, Difficulties
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
Topics: Strength, Crises
Citizenship consists in the service of the country
—Jawaharlal Nehru
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Argument
A man who is afraid will do anything.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Motivation, Fear
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Peace
Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Graduation, Spending time wisely, Time Management, Time
Great causes and little men go ill together.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Reason
A theory must be tempered with reality.
—Jawaharlal Nehru
Topics: Reality
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