Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThe 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.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
-
-
Those who boast are seldom the great.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
The light has gone out of our lives.Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it. For that light represented the living truth.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
Socialism is not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
To be successful in life what you need is education.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
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.”
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU