Most Famous Quotes by Jawahar Lal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889–27 May 1964) was an Indian statesman who was the first prime minister of India, from 1947 until 1964.


A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
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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.
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A theory must be tempered with reality.
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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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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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Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
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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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Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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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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The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
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The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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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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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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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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To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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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.
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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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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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It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
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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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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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Simply Amazing Thoughts

CONFIDENCE:

1 Day all villagers decided to pray for rain.

On the day of prayer all people gathered & only one boy come with umbrella. THATS CONFIDENCE.


TRUST:

Trust should be like feeling of a 1 year old baby, when you throw him in tha air, he laughs....

because he know you will catch him...


HOPE:

Every night we go to bed, have no assurance to get up alive in the next morning

but still we have many plans for coming day...


KEEP CONFIDENCE, TRUST IN GOD AND NEVER LOSE HOPE...


PLAN while others are playing.
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STUDY while others are sleeping.
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DECIDE while others are delaying.
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AND Enjoy THIS STORY

THE MAN AND HIS FINGER


A man once went to see a doctor complaining of aches and pains all over his body.


"Doctor my whole body hurts me," he moaned. The doctor asked him to show exactly where the pain was.


The man explained, "When I touch my shoulder, it hurts. When I touch my back it hurts. When I touch my legs, they hurt."


The doctor did a thorough examination and told the man-



"Sir, there is nothing wrong with your body. Your finger is broken. That is why it hurts wherever you touch. Get your finger plastered, rest it for a couple of weeks and all of your pains will disappear."! !

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SPIRITUAL COMMENTARY


In life so frequently it is our own perspective that causes us pain or pleasure.


As we go through life "feeling" the world with our fingers, if our finger is broken naturally we will experience pain everywhere. But,


we make the mistake of blaming the external world for our ailments: "My job is over-taxing, my husband is too demanding, my wife nags, my children are disobedient, my in-laws don't understand me, etc. etc."


But if you look throughout the world you will be able to find someone who has the same type of job, but is calm, or someone who has the same type of spouse but is happy, or someone who has the same type of children but is patient, or someone who has the same type of in-laws but is grateful.


What is it that allows 2 people to experience the same external situation but respond in 2 different ways?


Our own perspective. Our own perception.The key, then, is not to try to change every situation in our life, but rather to change the glasses through which we see the world.


Sure, if we have a fixable situation at the office or at home, we should definitely do our best to improve it. But, what we have observed is that if someone has the nature to be dissatisfied, or the nature to be stressed, or the nature to be pained, that person's nature is not going to change simply by changing the external situation.


A massage for the back or shoulder or legs would not help the man in our earlier example because it is his finger which is broken. He could spend hundreds of dollars to ease the pain in his body, but unless he puts his broken finger in a splint, he will continue to experience pain every time that finger touches the various parts of his body.


Similarly, we run around through life trying to "fix" our jobs or marriages or family life, but frequently the reality is in our own perspective. If we spend the same amount of energy "fixing" our perspective as we spend trying to "fix" our spouse or children,everything would be fine.


This is not to say that pains and troubles don't really exist in our day to day life. Of course they do.The man in our example may also have a stiff back or sore shoulders. But the excruciating pain he experienced was due not to the minor aches and pains in his body, but due to the severely broken finger with which he was touching them.


Similarly, our jobs and our families are taxing. They demand a lot of us. But the unbearable pain many of us experience is due not to the demands and commands from without, but due to the demands and commands from within ourselves.


In the Gita it is said that we are our best friend and also our own worst enemy, depending upon how we live our lives.


In this New Year,let us all take some time to examine what our own personal "broken finger" is.


What is it within ourselves that causes us to experience pain in the world? What irrational fear, what unfulfillable desire, what selfish motive, what ego-driven need has broken the finger with which we feel the world or has colored the glasses with which we see? We spend so much time examining others, but very little time examining our own selves.


The Source of all joy and peace lies within us.


We are blocked from that Source by a host of desires, fears and ignorance.


The key to finding and tapping into that Source must come from within.


Let us find the key within ourselves and unleash the Ocean of Divine Bliss in our lives!!Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Amazing Quotes on Gratitude

Amazing Gratitude Inspirational Quotes And Quotations

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"
~William A. Ward


The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.
~H.U. Westermayer

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
~ Wayne Dyer

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~ Marcel Proust

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
~Buddha

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. ~Cicero

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
~ John F Kennedy

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
~ Albert Schweitzer

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
~ Melody Beattie

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
~G.B. Stern



If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
~Meister Eckhart


There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
~Robert Brault,

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French


When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
~G.K. Chesterton


The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard


Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture.
~Kak Sri


If you have lived, take thankfully the past.
~John Dryden


As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. ~Terri Guillemets


I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton


You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
~G.K. Chesterton


For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get. ~Frank A. Clark


The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
~Henry Ward Beecher


Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.
~Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear



Praise the bridge that carried you over.
~George Colman


If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.
~Robert Quillen


He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
~Epictetus


What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
~Bertolt Brecht, Jungle of Cities, 1924


Gratitude is the best attitude.
~Author Unknown


Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
~W.T. Purkiser


We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.
~Will Carleton


We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder


Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
~William Faulkner


If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.
~Gerald Good


Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.
~Thomas Fuller


There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.
~Joseph Addison


Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness. ~Author Unknown


I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
~Benjamin Disraeli


There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.
~R.H. Blyth


Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
~Henry Clay


Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
~Estonian Proverb


All that we behold is full of blessings.
~William Wordsworth


Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
~George Herbert


The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
~Eric Hoffer, Reflections On The Human Condition


Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
~Henry Ward Beecher


When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
~George Canning


As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy


We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
~Cynthia Ozick


Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
~Horace


The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.
~Robert South


Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld


Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
~Aldous Huxley


When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
~Chinese Proverb


Thanks are justly due for boons unbought.
~Ovid


In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
~H.L. Mencken


Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
~William Arthur Ward


Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.
~Author Unknown

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Mantra For Happines

The mantra For Happiness

A great emperor asked his wise men to give him a mantra that could be used in any dangerous,fatal situation. Clueless, eventually they went to a Sufi mystic who gave them a piece of paper and said, “This should not be opened unless there really is
danger and there is no more hope!”


The king put the piece of paper under the diamond of his ring.

There were many moments when danger approached, but the Sufi had emphatically said, “Unless you feel this is really the last hope – that nothing can be more dangerous
– do not open it!” Many dangers came and went, but the king always felt that he could face it,and that he was not yet at the end of his tether.

Finally, death approached, and the king had still had not opened the piece of paper. His wise men pleaded,“Please open it. We want to see what is there.” But the king said, “It is now irrelevant what is there; the mantra has worked upon me. Ever
since I received this mantra, I have not felt any danger at all.

Whatsoever the danger was, I have felt still more was possible, and I have remained unperturbed.”

The king continued, “That Sufi is a wise man. I am not concerned about what he has written.”

After the king died, his wise men hastened to open the ring and pull out the paper. There was nothing written on it; it was a blank piece of paper. But the advice worked; the mantra worked.


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