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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

Indira Gandhi

I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
INDIRA GANDHI

Job Myself Talk
As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it – otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Ideas Mindset
Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
INDIRA GANDHI

Courage Opportunity Perseverance
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
INDIRA GANDHI

Liberty Men Theory Woman
Ability is not always gauged by examination.
INDIRA GANDHI

Ability Examination
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
INDIRA GANDHI

Faith Inspirational Summer
The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
INDIRA GANDHI

Earth Peace
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Developing Helping Nations
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
INDIRA GANDHI

Desire Function Politics
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
INDIRA GANDHI

Money Motivational Oneself
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Feeling Future Social Weakness Young
I learned very soon to get along by myself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Learning Myself
I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
INDIRA GANDHI

Fall In Love Myself
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Funny Himself Kind Leadership Success
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
INDIRA GANDHI

Art Politics Power
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
INDIRA GANDHI

Democracy River Women

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