There is not love where there is no will.

—Indira Gandhi

About Indira Gandhi

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Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (née Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian stateswoman who twice served as the Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. She was India's first and only female prime minister, and a central...

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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

—Indira Gandhi

The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

—Indira Gandhi

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

—Indira Gandhi

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

—Indira Gandhi

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Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

—Pope Paul VI

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Flowers… put up no resistance to attack, suffer evil rather than inflicting it, imitate carnal love, multiply without fighting, and die without complaining.… They have realized the dream of Buddha: to desire nothing, to tolerate everything, to be absorbed in oneself to the depths of the unconscious will.

—J. Rambosson

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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will; and the other from a strong won't.

—Henry Ward Beecher

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Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

—Hosea Ballou

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Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

—Emo Phillips

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