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.
INDIRA GANDHILife is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Difficulties can’t be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them. The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It’s all right to fight, yes, but only when it’s possible.
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I have certain objectives. They’re the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.
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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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Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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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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As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.
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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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Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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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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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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