I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
INDIRA GANDHITo me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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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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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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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
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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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That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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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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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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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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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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As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.
INDIRA GANDHI