When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
INDIRA GANDHIDefeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
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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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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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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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You 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.
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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
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Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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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’s the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.
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Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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It’s not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn’t be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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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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As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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Education 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.
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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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There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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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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In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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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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The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
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