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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.

Indira Gandhi

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Capability Faith Oneself
Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
INDIRA GANDHI

Courage Opportunity Perseverance
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
INDIRA GANDHI

People Politics Remember Right Rights
There is not love where there is no will.
INDIRA GANDHI

Love Willing
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
INDIRA GANDHI

Game Politics
I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
INDIRA GANDHI

Fall In Love Myself
The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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Enemy Ultimate
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
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Life Play Upset Victim
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Ideas Mindset
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Developing Helping Nations
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Age Beginning Myself Travel
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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Afford Nation
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
INDIRA GANDHI

Human Inspirational Leadership Life Progress
The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
INDIRA GANDHI

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

Action Necessary Philosophy

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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