You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
INDIRA GANDHIPeople with clenched fists can not shake hands.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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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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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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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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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.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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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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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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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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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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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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