Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
INDIRA GANDHILife is a continuous process of adjustment.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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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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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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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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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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Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.
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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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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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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.
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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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You 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.
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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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It’s the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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