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
Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
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.
It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.
It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
What is history, indeed, but a record of change?
Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.