Jawaharlal Nehru quotes

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. (Jawaharlal Nehru)
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Jawaharlal Nehru
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. (Jawaharlal Nehru)
Great causes and little men go ill together.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
Jawaharlal Nehru
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit.
Jawaharlal Nehru
To be successful in life what you need is education.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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
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
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
Jawaharlal Nehru
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear. (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
Ultimately what we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
Jawaharlal Nehru
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
Jawaharlal Nehru