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 GANDHIwhat is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
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Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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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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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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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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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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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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Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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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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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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