Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUI do not attach much importance to America’s bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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Play the hand you’re dealt.
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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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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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You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.
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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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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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