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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

The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
INDIRA GANDHI

Company Life Need Young
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Mother Personality
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
INDIRA GANDHI

Liberty Men Theory Woman
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
INDIRA GANDHI

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

Courage Opportunity Perseverance
I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
INDIRA GANDHI

Fall In Love Myself
I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
INDIRA GANDHI

Job Mom Perfection
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
The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
INDIRA GANDHI

Ideas Myself
As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.
INDIRA GANDHI

Difficult Easy Myself Time
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Age Beginning Myself Travel
I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
INDIRA GANDHI

Children Understand Victim Woman
Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
INDIRA GANDHI

Defeat Pain Victory
We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
INDIRA GANDHI

Ourselves Patriot Starve
The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
INDIRA GANDHI

Earth Peace
Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
INDIRA GANDHI

Life Myself One Liner Process
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
INDIRA GANDHI

Money Motivational Oneself
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Capacity Enemy Liberty Men Personality
Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
INDIRA GANDHI

Forget Goddess Strength
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
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
INDIRA GANDHI

Desire Function Politics
Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
INDIRA GANDHI

One Liner Popularity Quality
Just when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.
INDIRA GANDHI

Achievement Beginning Dream End Thinking Yourself
I learned very soon to get along by myself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Learning Myself
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Acceptance Country Difficult Fight Life Right
As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
INDIRA GANDHI

Believe Nation
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 GANDHI

Different Intellectual Mind Philosophy Practice

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.

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