Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUWhen you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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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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I do not attach much importance to America’s bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.
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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.
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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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There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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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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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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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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You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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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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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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Slogans are apt to petrify man’s thinking. Every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throw words at each other.
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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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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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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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Socialism is not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
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Those who boast are seldom the great.
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