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.
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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in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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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.
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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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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 have certain objectives. They’re the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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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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