Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

Quotes about:

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Humorous, Weakness, Knows

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1961). “India's foreign policy: selected speeches, September 1946-April 1961”

  22 Copy quote

• 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.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Children, Garden, Bud

  24 Copy quote

• To be successful in life what you need is education.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Successful, Degrees, Needs

  30 Copy quote

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Success, Teaching, Learning

  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”

  128 Copy quote

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Graduation, Time, Years

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1960). “India's Spokesman: From Speeches and Addresses”

  151 Copy quote

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  268 Copy quote

• Ignorance is always afraid of change.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Business, Ignorance, Reality

  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”

  57 Copy quote

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Future, Science, Hunger And Poverty

  Jawaharlal Nehru, H. N. Sethna (1981). “Proceedings of the International Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society in Developing Countries, Bombay, November 1979”

  14 Copy quote

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Fundamentals, Human Life, Approach

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund (1984). “Selected works of Jawaharlal Nehru, second series”, Oxford Univ Pr

  19 Copy quote

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Motivational, Failure, Principles

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1964). “Nehru on Socialism: Selected Speeches and Writings”

  113 Copy quote

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Nations, Conditions

  80 Copy quote

• 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 Nehru

  Inspirational, Taken, Sticks

  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”

  12 Copy quote

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Views, Culture, Birth

  92 Copy quote

• Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Poverty, Prosperity, Danger

  13 Copy quote

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Reality, Essentials, Theory

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1954). “Speeches 1949-1953”

  7 Copy quote

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Causes, Defeat, Prepared

  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”

  7 Copy quote

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  People, Nations, Narrow Mindedness

  11 Copy quote

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Country, America, Firsts

  "The Traveling Curmudgeon: Irreverent Notes, Quotes, and Anecdotes on Dismal Destinations, Excess Baggage, The Full Upright Position, and Other Reasons Not To Go There". Book by Jon Winokur, August 19, 2003.

  10 Copy quote

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Past, Companion, Fearlessness

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1948). “Nehru on Gandhi”, New York : J. Day Company

  16 Copy quote

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Law, Remember, Please

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1958). “Mar. 1953-Aug. 1957”

  8 Copy quote

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Giving, Sticks, Dignity

  17 Copy quote

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Loyal, May, Fruit

  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”

  26 Copy quote

• 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

  Thinking, Trouble, Advantage

  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”

  17 Copy quote

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Years, Accomplish, Feels

  8 Copy quote

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Rich, Poor, Force

  "Basic Approach," repr. in Vincent Shean Nehru: the Years of Power (1960) p. 295

  14 Copy quote

Page 1 of 6

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin