Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
INDIRA GANDHIDefeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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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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I don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
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Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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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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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.
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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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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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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.
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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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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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