Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUFailure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
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It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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The light has gone out of our lives.Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it. For that light represented the living truth.
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Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
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Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
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History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.
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Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.
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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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