Quote by Jawaharlal Nehru Download Open image ““But the ideal is terribly difficult to grasp or to hold.”” — Jawaharlal Nehru ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.” — JSB Morse Copy Share Image
“idealism misconstrues agency, implying the capacity to bring about influence where that capacity may not exist or where it may only be weak.” — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.” — A.J. Darkholme Copy Share Image
“What you don't know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I was in college, and after I got hold of that principle I became an Idealist. I was a brass-bound Idealist in those days. If you are an Idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share
“What was the good at having an ideal if everyone is trying to beat everyone else at admitting how impossible it is to achieve… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“Let's get real about the ideal. It sucks. It doesn't represent us, and it doesn't even try to. It refuses to acknowledge that people… — Megan Jayne Crabbe Copy Share Image
“Idealists mature badly. If they can’t outgrow their idealism, they become hypocrites or blind.” — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“Earlier I had thought a lot about why it was so extremely unusual for a person to be able to live for an ideal.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“A so-called ideal scheme which does not grow out of reality is definitely and finally not ideal at all.” — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“Without that passion and urge, there is a gradual oozing out of hope and vitality, a settling down on lower levels of existence, a… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Success comes to those who dare and act; it seldom goes to the timid. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
