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 NEHRUUnity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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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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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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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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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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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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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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Those who boast are seldom the great.
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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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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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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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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.
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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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