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 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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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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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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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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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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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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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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The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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Without 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.
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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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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
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