I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
INDIRA GANDHINow I don’t get upset by unpleasant things, I don’t play the victim, and I’m always ready to come to terms with life.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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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.
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Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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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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How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
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The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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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.
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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
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The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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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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Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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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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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.
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Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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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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Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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You soon realize that the peak you’ve climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb And the more you climb, the more you want to climb – even though you’re dead tired.
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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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