Jawaharlal Nehru
18 quotations
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
What we need is a generation of peace.
A theory must be tempered with reality.
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Great causes and little men go ill together.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Every little thing counts in a crisis.
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.