Jawaharlal Nehru

Most things, except agriculture, can wait

— Jawaharlal Nehru

To be successful in life what you need is education.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I am the last Englishman to rule in India.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

A theory must be tempered with reality.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

A man who is afraid will do anything.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Discontent is the spur of progress.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

What we need is a generation of peace.

— 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

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— 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

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“For only they can sense life who stand often on the verge of it, only they whose lives are not governed by…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

“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

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has good points…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Any vital action springs from the depths of the being. All the long past of the individual and even of the race…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“A country under foreign domination seeks escape from the present in dreams of a vanished age, and finds consolation in visions of…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness. Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“The ideals and objectives of yesterday was still ideals of today, but they lost some of their luster and even, as one…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Someone said the other day: death is the birthright of every person born—a curious way of putting an obvious thing. It is…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

— Jawaharlal Nehru