People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUHistory is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors’ version is given prominence and holds the field.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
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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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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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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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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.
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The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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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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It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
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Play the hand you’re dealt.
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Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.
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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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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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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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