Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence. He emerged as the paramount leader of the Indian independence movement under the tutelage of Mahatma Gandhi and ruled India from its establishment as an independent nation in 1947 until his death in 1964. He is considered to be the architect of the modern Indian nation-state: a sovereign, socialist, secular, and democratic republic...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth14 November 1889
CityAllahabad, India
CountryIndia
Jawaharlal Nehru quotes about
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism?the way you play it is free will.
The Russians have been so sweet to me,
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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.