Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

To be successful in life what you need is education.

You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.

Most things, except agriculture, can wait.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

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

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.

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

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.

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

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

What we need is a generation of peace.

In this materialistic age of ours,’ says Professor Albert Einstein, ’the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people.’15 In.

But, after all, no safeguards are adequate, unless the will to give effect to them fully is present.

If any person raises his hand to strike down another on the ground of religion, I shall fight him till the last breath of my life, both as the head of the government and from the outside.

For only they can sense life who stand often on the verge of it, only they whose lives are not governed by the fear of death.

But the ideal is terribly difficult to grasp or to hold.

I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.

When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

I was taught by a great man, never to hate – and never to fear.

Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.

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

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

Time is not measured by the years that pass by, instead by the things you do, feel or accomplish...

It is always more difficult to fight one’s own failings than the power of an adversary.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.

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

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

America is a country no one should go to for the first time.

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

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.

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of human ity.

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.

Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

A man who is afraid will do anything.

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

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

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.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.

I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.

The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi’s assassination.

I am the last Englishman to rule in India.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

What is history, indeed, but a record of change?

The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.

The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

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.

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.

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.

...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.

A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Those who boast are seldom the great.

When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.

Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.

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

The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.

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

We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

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

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

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

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

A country is known by the way it treats its animals