The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
INDIRA GANDHIThe future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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.
INDIRA GANDHIWe would rather starve than sell our national honor.
INDIRA GANDHIAbility is not always gauged by examination.
INDIRA GANDHIDacca is now the free capital of a free country.
INDIRA GANDHIUntil 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.
INDIRA GANDHIOpportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
INDIRA GANDHIWithout 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.
INDIRA GANDHIin today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
INDIRA GANDHIMankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
INDIRA GANDHII don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
INDIRA GANDHIWhen I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
INDIRA GANDHIWhen it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
INDIRA GANDHIThe purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
INDIRA GANDHIEducation is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.
INDIRA GANDHIThe meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
INDIRA GANDHI