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

Indira Gandhi

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
INDIRA GANDHI

Afford Nation
That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
INDIRA GANDHI

Action Necessary Philosophy
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Feeling Future Social Weakness Young
Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
INDIRA GANDHI

Deep Forget Silence
When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
INDIRA GANDHI

Selfish Young
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
INDIRA GANDHI

Believe Hope Life Purpose
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
INDIRA GANDHI

Liberty Men Theory Woman
Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.
INDIRA GANDHI

Growth Peace People Poor Prosperity Rich
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
INDIRA GANDHI

Desire Function Politics
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
Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
INDIRA GANDHI

Forget Goddess Strength
My father was a saint. I’m not.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Saint
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

Achievement Beginning Dream End Thinking Yourself
Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
INDIRA GANDHI

Country Freedom
Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
INDIRA GANDHI

Defeat Pain Victory
Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
INDIRA GANDHI

Empowerment Listening True Woman

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