Quotes By Jawaharlal Nehru

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.

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

We can't encourage narrow-mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.

Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

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.

The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.

Most things, except agriculture, can wait.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

A tyrst with destiny - At the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.

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.

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.