Let’s read Famous Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes In English, Motivational Quotes Of Jawaharlal Nehru In English.
Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes In English -:
~ Discontent is the spur of progress.
~ Every little thing counts in a crisis.
~ Ignorance is always afraid of change.
~ A theory must be tempered with reality.
~ Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
~ The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
~ But the ideal is terribly difficult to grasp or to hold.
~ The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
~ Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
~ Truth is one: (though) the wise call it by various names.
~ There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
~ The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
~ I was taught by a great man, never to hate – and never to fear.
~ Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Jawaharlal Nehru Thoughts In English -:
~ Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
~ Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
~ There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
~ Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
~ Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
~ Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
~ The practical statesman took precedence over the uncompromising prophet.
~ Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
~ Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.
Motivational Quotes Of Jawaharlal Nehru In English -:
~ You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
~ Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
~ There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
~ Nationalism is essentially a group memory of past achievements, traditions and experiences.
~ Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
~ But, after all, no safeguards are adequate, unless the will to give effect to them fully is present.
~ Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
~ The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
~ Whatever gods there be, there is something godlike in man, as there is also something of the devil in him.
~ Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
~ Our desires seek out supporting reasons and tend to ignore facts and arguments that do not fit in with them.
Famous Quotes By Jawaharlal Nehru -:
~ Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
~ Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
~ A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
~ For only they can sense life who stand often on the verge of it, only they whose lives are not governed by the fear of death.
~ In this materialistic age of ours,’ says Professor Albert Einstein, ‘the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people.
~ We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
~ Life is too complicated and, as far as we can understand it in our present state of knowledge, too illogical, for it to be confined within the four corners of a fixed doctrine.
~ And yet fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than reality itself, and reality, when calmly analysed and its consequences willingly accepted, loses much of its terror.
~ A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
~ If any person raises his hand to strike down another on the ground of religion, I shall fight him till the last breath of my life, both as the head of the government and from the outside.
~ The best and noblest gifts of humanity cannot be the monopoly of a particular race or country. its scope may not be limited nor may it be regarded as the miser’s hoard buried underground.
Jawaharlal Nehru Motivational Quotes -:
~ 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; but that is not the politician’s way.
~ She (India) was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed , and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously.
~ 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.
~ I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other systems have been tried and found wanting. Let this one be tried—if for nothing else, for the novelty of the thing.
~ Without that passion and urge, there is a gradual oozing out of hope and vitality, a settling down on lower levels of existence, a slow merging into non-existence. We become prisoners of the past and some part of its immobility sticks to us.
~ We have all become wayfarers and travellers marching on and on. – Yet, for those who can adapt themselves to this continuous journeying, there is no regret and they would not have it otherwise. A reture to the dull uneventful past is unthinkable.
~ India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over again she has renewed her childhood and youth and age.
~ I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I do not believe in such ceremonies, and to submit to them, even as a matter of form, would be hypocrisy and an attempt to delude ourselves and others.
~ Fine buildings, fine pictures and books and everything that is beautiful are certainly signs of civilization. But an even better sign is a fine man who is unselfish and works with others for the good of all. To work together is better than to work singly, and to work together for the common good is best of all.
~ We must remember that what our governments are doing today will set the tone for future administrations. The very powers that may be exercised, perhaps for adequate reasons today, may be exercised later for totally inadequate and perhaps even for objectionable reasons. It is always unsafe to weaken on principles.
~ Man’s dearest possession in life, and since it is given to him to live but once, he must so live as not to be seared with the shame of a cowardly and trivial past, so live as not to be tortured for years without purpose, so live that dying he can say: “All my life and my strength were given to the first cause of the world — the liberation of mankind.
~ The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.
~ A country under foreign domination seeks escape from the present in dreams of a vanished age, and finds consolation in visions of past greatness. That is a foolish and dangerous pastime in which many of us indulge. An equally questionable practice for us in India is to imagine that we are still spiritually great though we have come down in the world in other respects. Spiritual or any other greatness cannot be founded on lack of freedom and opportunity, or on starvation and misery.
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