Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes - Page 4

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• Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

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  Country, India, Republic

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1949). “Speeches”

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• Remember always that there not so very much difference between various people as we seem to imagine. Maps and atlases show us countries in different colors. Undoubtedly people do differ from one another, but they resemble each other also a great deal, and it is well to keep this in mind and not misled by colors on the map or by national boundaries.

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  Country, Color, Differences

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi (1963). “India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'”, Asia Publishing House

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

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  Change, Life Changing, Pace

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1965). “Congressmen's Primer for Socialism”

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Peace, War

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

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  Mean, Eugenics, Democracy

  "Basic Approach," repr. in Vincent Shean Nehru: the Years of Power (1960) p. 294

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• Play the hand you're dealt.

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  Gratitude, Hands, Cards You're Dealt

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• 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.

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  Ocean, Memorable, Past

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• 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.

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  Country, Mind, Culture

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1954). “Speeches”

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

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  Leadership, Men, Thinking

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1962). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an Autobiography: With Musings on Recent Events in India”

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• What we need is a generation of peace.

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  Peace, Needs, Generations

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• Most things, except agriculture, can wait

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  Agriculture, Waiting

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

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  Family, Heart, Unity

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1968). “Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects”

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Sleep, Long

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

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

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  Eugenics, Way, Problem

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1963). “Jawaharlal Nehru on Community Development and Panchayati Raj”

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

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  Inspirational, Long, Giving

  Jawaharlal Nehru (2003). “The Essential Writings of Jawaharlal Nehru”

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

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  Change, Sleep, Destiny

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

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  Running, Quiet, Danger

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

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

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  Inspiration, Past, Relief

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

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  Home, East, Mixtures

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1989). “Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography : with Musings on Recent Events in India”, Vintage

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• The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

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  Eye, Ambition, Men

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

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

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  Travel, Adventure, Soul Beauty

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1983). “Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches”

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• For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it's great books, the "Upnishads," and the "Bhagavad Gita."

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  Book, Thinking, Other Worlds

  "An Autobiography". Book by Jawaharlal Nehru, 1936.

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• A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them

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  Race, Culture, Genius

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1980). “An Anthology”

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• No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded

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  Country, People, Progress

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi N. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda;general Editor: S. Gopal”

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

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  Fuel Efficiency, Advantage, Type

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1954). “Speeches”

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