Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

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

To be successful in life what you need is education.

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

Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.

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

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

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

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

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

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

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

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

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere

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

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.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

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

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

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

People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it

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