Jawaharlal Nehru Short Quotes

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I shall be the last Englishman to rule in India.

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To be successful in life what you need is education.

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I may lose many things including my temper, but I do not lose my nerve.

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

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

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

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

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

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It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.

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

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

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Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

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It is amazing how people deceive themselves and others when it is in their interest to do so.

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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

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At the stroke of the midnight hour, while the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
Immediately prior to Independence

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

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

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Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.

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