Quotes By Jawaharlal Nehru
Leader
Jawaharlal Nehru
Nov 14, 1889 - May 27, 1964
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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