Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
-
“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
“Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
“What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.”
-- Jawaharlal NehruSource : Jawaharlal Nehru (1954). “Speeches”
-
“The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
-
“Citizenship consists in the service of the country.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
“Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.”
-- Jawaharlal NehruSource : Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”
-
“Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.”
-- Jawaharlal NehruSource : Jawaharlal Nehru (1964). “Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”
-
“At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
-
“Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
“Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
“The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
-
“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
“Every little thing counts in a crisis.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
“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 -
“Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.”
-- Jawaharlal NehruSource : Jawaharlal Nehru (1964). “Nehru on Socialism: Selected Speeches and Writings”
-
-
“Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
“It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
“Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
“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 -
-
“Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
“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 NehruSource : Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal”
-
“Slogans are apt to petrify man's thinking ... every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throwT words at each other.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
“It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.”
-- Jawaharlal NehruSource : Jawaharlal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund (1984). “Selected works of Jawaharlal Nehru, second series”, Oxford Univ Pr
-
-
“You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
“It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.”
-- Jawaharlal NehruSource : Jawaharlal Nehru, H. N. Sethna (1981). “Proceedings of the International Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society in Developing Countries, Bombay, November 1979”
-
“There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.”
-- Jawaharlal NehruSource : Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”
-
“I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized on this earth, capable of becoming master of his fate and captain of his soul.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
-
“Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
“The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
You may also like:
-
Abdul Kalam
Former President of India -
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Former Prime Minister of India -
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian Politician -
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Journalist -
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Former President of Egypt -
Indira Gandhi
Former Prime Minister of India -
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Former Prime Minister of India -
Lord Mountbatten
Former Viceroy of India -
Mahatma Gandhi
Lawyer -
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Lawyer -
Narendra Modi
Prime Minister of India -
Rabindranath Tagore
Author -
Rajiv Gandhi
Former Prime Minister of India -
Sonia Gandhi
President of Indian National Congress -
Subhas Chandra Bose
Political leader -
Sukarno
Former President of Indonesia -
Swami Vivekananda
Author -
Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian statesman
