Quotes from Jawaharlal Nehru

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

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

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.

A man who is afraid will do anything.

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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