The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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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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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A man who is afraid will do anything.
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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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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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Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
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Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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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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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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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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When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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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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