Now I don’t get upset by unpleasant things, I don’t play the victim, and I’m always ready to come to terms with life.
INDIRA GANDHINow I don’t get upset by unpleasant things, I don’t play the victim, and I’m always ready to come to terms with life.
INDIRA GANDHIIn 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.
INDIRA GANDHIYou soon realize that the peak you’ve climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb And the more you climb, the more you want to climb – even though you’re dead tired.
INDIRA GANDHISometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
INDIRA GANDHIAs I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.
INDIRA GANDHIDefeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
INDIRA GANDHIThere is not love where there is no will.
INDIRA GANDHIWhenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
INDIRA GANDHIEducation is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.
INDIRA GANDHIThe greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
INDIRA GANDHIMy theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
INDIRA GANDHIWhen it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
INDIRA GANDHINever forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
INDIRA GANDHIThe immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
INDIRA GANDHIEvery democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
INDIRA GANDHIThe 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