Quotes from Jawaharlal Nehru

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

To be successful in life what you need is education.

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

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.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

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

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

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

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

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

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

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.

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

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

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

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

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

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.

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

Great causes and little men go ill together.

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.