110+ Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes On Children's Day, India And Freedom

Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian independence activist and leader who served as India’s first Prime Minister from 1947 to 1964. He was a leader of the Indian National Congress and a key figure in the Indian independence movement. He is considered to be the architect of modern India, playing a major role in the country's transition from a colony to a republic. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Jawaharlal Nehru on children's day, india, freedom.

Top 10 Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

1. Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
2. 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.
3. We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
4. Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
5. The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
6. Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
7. Play the hand you're dealt.
8. A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
9. Ignorance is always afraid of change.
10. You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Jawaharlal Nehru Short Quotes

• The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
• The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
• Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
• The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
• It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
• Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
• A theory must be tempered with reality.
• As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
• Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
• Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes About India

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age — Jawaharlal Nehru

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. — Jawaharlal Nehru

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. 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. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. — Jawaharlal Nehru

At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength. — Jawaharlal Nehru

It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of human ity. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again. — Jawaharlal Nehru

India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems. — Jawaharlal Nehru

The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future. — Jawaharlal Nehru

A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom — Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes About Progressive

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded — Jawaharlal Nehru

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

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes About People

All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments. — 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. — Jawaharlal Nehru

We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Slogans are apt to petrify man's thinking ... every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throwT words at each other. — Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it — Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes About Life

I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things. — Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values. — Jawaharlal Nehru

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

The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. — Jawaharlal Nehru

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. — Jawaharlal Nehru

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth. — Jawaharlal Nehru

It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes About Action

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences. — Jawaharlal Nehru

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes About Peace

What we need is a generation of peace. — Jawaharlal Nehru

I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government. — Jawaharlal Nehru

...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age. — Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

Jawaharlal Nehru Famous Quotes And Sayings

The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over. — Jawaharlal Nehru

For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it's great books, the "Upnishads," and the "Bhagavad Gita." — Jawaharlal Nehru

The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light... and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it... For that light represented the living truth. — Jawaharlal Nehru

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. — Jawaharlal Nehru

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition. — Jawaharlal Nehru

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves. — Jawaharlal Nehru

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them — Jawaharlal Nehru

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field. — Jawaharlal Nehru

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

The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats. She has been a symbol of India's age-long culture and civilization, ever changing, ever flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people behave like beasts. Instead of bringing enlightenment of them, it has often tried to keep them in the dark; instead of broadening their minds, it has frequently made them narrow-minded and intolerant of others. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Every little thing counts in a crisis. — Jawaharlal Nehru

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. — Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today.Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system. And because we have tolerated our past and present evils, international affairs are poisoned and law and justice have disappeared from them. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Great causes and little men go ill together. — Jawaharlal Nehru

There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by. — Jawaharlal Nehru

The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination. — Jawaharlal Nehru

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about. — Jawaharlal Nehru

I have always thought that the best way to find out what is right and what is not right, what should be done and what should not be done, is not to give a sermon, but to talk and discuss, and out of discussion sometimes a little bit of truth comes out. — Jawaharlal Nehru

We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future? — Jawaharlal Nehru

If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though that civilization may drag out for a considerable period, it grows less and less vital and ultimately tumbles down. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the good of all. If wisdom governs our actions; but if the world is mad or foolish, it can destroy itself just when great advances and triumphs are almost without its grasp. — Jawaharlal Nehru

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

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Those who boast are seldom the great. — Jawaharlal Nehru

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

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration. — Jawaharlal Nehru

I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera. — Jawaharlal Nehru

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. — Jawaharlal Nehru

It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Time is not measured by the years that pass by, instead by the things you do, feel or accomplish. — Jawaharlal Nehru

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 and more significant than her financial power. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Remember always that there not so very much difference between various people as we seem to imagine. Maps and atlases show us countries in different colors. Undoubtedly people do differ from one another, but they resemble each other also a great deal, and it is well to keep this in mind and not misled by colors on the map or by national boundaries. — Jawaharlal Nehru

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

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Most things, except agriculture, can wait — Jawaharlal Nehru

What is history, indeed, but a record of change? — Jawaharlal Nehru

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings. — Jawaharlal Nehru

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

In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use their language in the narrow sense of the mind. Something that goes even much further than that is not the appeal to logic and reason, but some kind of emotional awareness of the other people. — Jawaharlal Nehru

A man who is afraid will do anything. — Jawaharlal Nehru

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty and charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. So many people seem to go about their life's business with their eyes shut. Indeed, they object to other people keeping their eyes open. Unable to play themselves, they dislike the play of others. — Jawaharlal Nehru

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others. — Jawaharlal Nehru

A country is known by the way it treats its animals — Jawaharlal Nehru

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

If in the modern world wars have unfortunately to be fought (and they do, it seems) then they must be stopped at the first possible moment, otherwise they corrupt us, they create new problems and make our future even more uncertain. That is more than morality; it's sense. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere — Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Life Lessons by Jawaharlal Nehru

1. Jawaharlal Nehru taught us to be compassionate and tolerant towards others, regardless of their beliefs or backgrounds.
2. He also taught us to be resilient in the face of adversity, and to never give up on our dreams and goals.
3. Lastly, he taught us to always strive to make the world a better place, and to use our knowledge and skills to help those in need.