One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
INDIRA GANDHIMartyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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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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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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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 democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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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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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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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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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.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.
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To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
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