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  • Former Prime Minister Of India
  • 1889 - 1964
  • 143 quotes

Jawaharlal Nehru, Former Prime Minister Of India (1889 - 1964), is quoted 143 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Peace, People, Country and Men.

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Play the hand you're dealt.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

A man who is afraid will do anything.

Those who boast are seldom the great.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Most things, except agriculture, can wait

I am the last Englishman to rule in India.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

What is history, indeed, but a record of change?

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

A country is known by the way it treats its animals

The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

To be successful in life what you need is education.

Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

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

Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.

America is a country no one should go to for the first time.

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

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

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

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

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

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

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

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

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

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

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

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

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

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

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

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

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

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

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

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

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

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

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