Jawaharlal Nehru
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.Collection: Relationship
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.Collection: Change
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.Collection: Attitude
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.Collection: Peace
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.Collection: History
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.Collection: Life
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.Collection: Art
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.Collection: Beauty
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.Collection: Home
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.Collection: Fear
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.Collection: Failure
Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.Collection: Truth
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.Collection: Time
Ignorance is always afraid of change.Collection: Change
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Every little thing counts in a crisis.
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
Great causes and little men go ill together.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
A theory must be tempered with reality.
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.Collection: Humorous
Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.Collection: Children
To be successful in life what you need is education.Collection: Successful
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.Collection: Success
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.Collection: Future
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.Collection: Nations
It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.Collection: Fundamentals
There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.Collection: Inspirational
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.Collection: Views
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.Collection: Past