The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
INDIRA GANDHIYou 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.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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Now I don’t get upset by unpleasant things, I don’t play the victim, and I’m always ready to come to terms with life.
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Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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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.
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There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
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Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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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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To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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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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