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Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

Indira Gandhi

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

Courage Opportunity Perseverance
I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
INDIRA GANDHI

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

Fall In Love Myself
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Funny Himself Kind Leadership Success
The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
INDIRA GANDHI

Birth Control Mean Men
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Death Fight Mother Time
There is not love where there is no will.
INDIRA GANDHI

Love Willing
I learned very soon to get along by myself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Learning Myself
When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
INDIRA GANDHI

Complaint Impossible People Resistance Selfish
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
INDIRA GANDHI

Art Politics Power
what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
INDIRA GANDHI

Needs Popularity Right Wise
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
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
INDIRA GANDHI

Desire Function Politics
I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
INDIRA GANDHI

Blood Death Life People Strength
To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Capability Faith Oneself
As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
INDIRA GANDHI

Believe Nation

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