Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
INDIRA GANDHIOpportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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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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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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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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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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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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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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Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women’s movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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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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Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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