Indira Gandhi Quotes

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi ( 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was the fourth Prime Minister of India and a central figure of the Indian National Congress party. Gandhi, who served from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, is the second-longest-serving Prime Minister of India and the only woman to hold the office.
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

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

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

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there

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

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

There is not love where there is no will.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

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