I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
INDIRA GANDHIWithout 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.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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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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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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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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You 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.
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Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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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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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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Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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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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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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