Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
INDIRA GANDHIYou soon realize that the peak you’ve climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb And the more you climb, the more you want to climb – even though you’re dead tired.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
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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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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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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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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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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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The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.
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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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