Quotes By Jawaharlal Nehru

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.

It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

I am interested in this world, in this life, not in some other world or future life.

Freedom and power bring responsibility.

The future is not one of ease or resting but of incessant striving so that we may fulfill the pledges we have so often taken.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and culture and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.

The object of education was to produce a desire to serve the community as a whole and to apply the knowledge gained not only for personal but for public welfare.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age.

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people. Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn, we have to seek its aid.