Best Quotes by Jawaharlal Nehru (Top 10)

  1. Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
  2. 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.
  3. Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
  4. Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
  5. What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
  6. Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
  7. Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
  8. It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
  9. A man who is afraid will do anything.
  10. Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

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