Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
INDIRA GANDHIForgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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Difficulties can’t be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them. The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It’s all right to fight, yes, but only when it’s possible.
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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.
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To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
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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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You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
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Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give 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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in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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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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Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.
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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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Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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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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Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women’s movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.
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