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 GANDHII refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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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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I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
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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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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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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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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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There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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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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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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