You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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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The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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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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Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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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.
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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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I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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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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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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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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