Jawaharlal Nehru

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“But the ideal is terribly difficult to grasp or to hold.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Our desires seek out supporting reasons and tend to ignore facts and arguments that do not fit in with them.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“And yet fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than reality itself, and reality, when calmly analysed and its consequences willingly…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed , and yet no…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“..And yet wrong steps have to be taken sometimes lest some worse peril befall us; that is the great paradox of politics,…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“We have all become wayfarers and travellers marching on and on …Yet,for those who can adapt themselves to this continuous journeying,there is…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Without that passion and urge, there is a gradual oozing out of hope and vitality, a settling down on lower levels of…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems,

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Truth is one: (though) the wise call it by various names.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

— Jawaharlal Nehru