Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUObviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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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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Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
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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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What we need is a generation of peace.
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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.
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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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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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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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Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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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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