Latest Indira Gandhi Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Indira Gandhi

  Wish, Overcoming, May

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mean, Contentment, Ordinary

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• Satisfied is a word I use only in reference to my country, and I'll never be satisfied for my country. For this reasons I go on taking difficult paths, and between a paved road and a footpath that goes up the mountain, I choose the footpath. To the great irritation of my bodyguards.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Irritation, Mountain

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• If by happiness you mean ecstasy ... Yes, I've known ecstasy, and it's a blessing to be able to say it because those who can say it are very few. But ecstasy doesn't last long and is seldom if ever repeated.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mean, Blessing, Long

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.

  Indira Gandhi

  Contentment, Moments, Moments Of Happiness

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness.

  Indira Gandhi

  Views, Fleeting, Point Of View

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• Now 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.

  Indira Gandhi

  Play, Upset, Victim

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

  Indira Gandhi

  Selfish, People, Complaining

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.

  Indira Gandhi

  Selfish, Young

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• 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

  Country, Fighting, Overcoming

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.

  Indira Gandhi

  Difficulty

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• I certainly won't have an empty life!

  Indira Gandhi

  Empty Life, Empty

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.

  Indira Gandhi

  Difficulty, Ifs

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children. Or else I'll start studying anthropology - it's a science that's always interested me very much, also in relation to the problem of poverty. Or else I'll go back to studying history - at Oxford I took my degree in history. Or else...I don't know, I'm fascinated by the tribal communities. I might busy myself with them.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Children, Oxford

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Children, Care

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.

  Indira Gandhi

  Jobs, Village, Prime

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.

  Indira Gandhi

  Falling In Love, Trying, Wells

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• The India I want, I'll never tire of repeating, is a more just and less poor India, one entirely free of foreign influences. If I thought the country was already marching toward these objectives, I'd give up politics immediately and retire as prime minister.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Giving Up, Want

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.

  Indira Gandhi

  Jobs, Done, Adults

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• I said that my father was not a politician. I, instead, think I am. But not in the sense of being interested in a political career - rather in the sense that I think it necessary to strive to build a certain India, the India I want.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Thinking, Careers

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.

  Indira Gandhi

  Talking, Honor, Tempted

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

  Indira Gandhi

  Forever, Lasts, Nothing Lasts Forever

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• I'm not ambitious. Not a bit.

  Indira Gandhi

  Ambitious, Bits

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.

  Indira Gandhi

  Tired, People, Bored

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

• Whether when I was a child and fought the British in the Monkey brigade, or when I was a girl and wanted to have children, or when I was a woman and devoted myself to my father, making my husband angry. Each time I stayed involved all the way in my decision, and took the consequences. Even if I was fighting for things that didn't concern India.

  Indira Gandhi

  Girl, Children, Husband

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.