Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.
Indira GandhiYou must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira GandhiDifficulties 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 GandhiIt 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.
Indira GandhiIt is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than a deeply held belief, the basis of their actions. They do not seem to mind harming society as a whole in the pursuit of their immediate objective. No society can survive if it yields to the demands of frenzy, whether of the few or the many.
Indira Gandhi