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Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes For Students and Children: Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence. He emerged as the paramount leader of the Indian independence movement under the tutelage of Mahatma Gandhi and ruled India from its establishment as an independent nation in 1947 until his death in 1964. He is considered to be the architect of the modern Indian nation-state: a sovereign, socialist, secular, and democratic republic. He was also known as Pandit Nehru due to his roots with the Kashmiri Pandit community while many Indian children knew him as Chacha Nehru.
Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
- Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
- You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
- Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
- What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
- The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
- Great causes and little men go ill together.
- To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
- Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
- The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
- Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
- The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
- Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
- The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
- There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
- The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
- The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
- Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
- Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
- Every little thing counts in a crisis.
- Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
- Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
- Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
- It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
- Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
- Ignorance is always afraid of change.
- A theory must be tempered with reality.
- It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
- Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
- Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
