Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage – courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow.
INDIRA GANDHIJust when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
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The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.
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That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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It’s not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn’t be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
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Just when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.
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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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