Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

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

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.

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

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

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

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.

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

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

Great causes and little men go ill together.

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

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

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

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.

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

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.

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