Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Fear Friendship Past Truth
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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Economy Force Poor Rich
We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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Encouragement Greatness Ideas Nation Thinking
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Failure Ourselves Weakness
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Life Science Value
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Nation Woman Yourself
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Control Himself Man Peace
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.
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Care Children Citizenship Flower Future Love Nation
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Absence Mindset Peace War
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Bad Dangerous Fear Life
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Force Thinking
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Beginning Myself Old Problem
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Change Face History Yourself
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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Home Identity Myself Place
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Opinion Truth
I 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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Attachment Greatness Importance Myself Power
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Action Direction End
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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Goodness Hero Inspirational Training
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
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Action Leadership Men Reason Thinking
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Attitude Enough Goodness
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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Inspirational Past Present
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

Boundary Democracy Equality Greatness Revolution
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

Ambition Beyond Eyes Greatness Man Suffering Tears
Play the hand you’re dealt.
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Hands One Liner Play Yourself
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

Advice Generosity Job Yourself
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Easy Escape Run

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