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.
INDIRA GANDHIEvery democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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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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Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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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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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 learned very soon to get along by myself.
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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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I 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.
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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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It’s not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn’t be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
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