I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
INDIRA GANDHIOpportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.
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To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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I don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
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Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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It’s the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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Now I don’t get upset by unpleasant things, I don’t play the victim, and I’m always ready to come to terms with life.
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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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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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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.
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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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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.
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