Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
INDIRA GANDHITo become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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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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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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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.
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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women’s movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.
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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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