Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
INDIRA GANDHIWithout 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.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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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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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
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You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.
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Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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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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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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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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