Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes - Page 3

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

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

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

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

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

Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today.Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system. And because we have tolerated our past and present evils, international affairs are poisoned and law and justice have disappeared from them.

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.

Those who boast are seldom the great.

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

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

Play the hand you're dealt.

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

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

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.

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

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Most things, except agriculture, can wait