Ability is not always gauged by examination.
INDIRA GANDHIJust 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.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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As 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.
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In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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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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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
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The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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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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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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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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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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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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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
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