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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.

Indira Gandhi

Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
INDIRA GANDHI

Country Freedom
When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
INDIRA GANDHI

Selfish Young
Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
INDIRA GANDHI

Change Design Pioneers Rebel
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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Change Poverty
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
INDIRA GANDHI

Liberty Men Theory Woman
Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
INDIRA GANDHI

Appreciate Diversity Endurance Justice Logic
I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
INDIRA GANDHI

Children Understand Victim Woman
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 GANDHI

Funny Himself Kind Leadership Success
That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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Action Necessary Philosophy
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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Age Class Education Force Liberty
People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
INDIRA GANDHI

Hands Inspirational Life People Women
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Different Intellectual Mind Philosophy Practice
Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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Deep Forget Silence
There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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Contentment Happiness Moments
We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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Ourselves Patriot Starve
As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it – otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Ideas Mindset
Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
INDIRA GANDHI

Forget Goddess Strength
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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Faith Inspirational Summer
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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Complaint Impossible People Resistance Selfish
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Cure Injustice Story
Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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Defeat Pain Victory
Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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One Liner Popularity Quality
The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
INDIRA GANDHI

Company Life Need Young
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
INDIRA GANDHI

People Politics Remember Right Rights
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
INDIRA GANDHI

Human Inspirational Leadership Life Progress
I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
INDIRA GANDHI

Unity World
Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
INDIRA GANDHI

Courage Opportunity Perseverance

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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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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