Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.

I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

I have to reign myself in a lot.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

When I shoot at the range, I don't feel personally powerful but like the custodian of something powerful. I feel like a successful disciplinarian of something radically alien and potent. Analyze this sensation all you want; you still can't make it go away.

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

As important as having strength is knowing how to use it.

The secret of power is will.

We all have to recognize, no matter how great our strength, we must deny ourselves the license to do always as we please.

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.

Self-control is true power.

I wasn't blessed with the natural ability to rein myself in.

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.