No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUDo not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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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Play the hand you’re dealt.
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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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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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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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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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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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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 forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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History 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.
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Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
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