Indira Gandhi quotes

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

— Indira Gandhi

“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”

— Indira Gandhi

“There is not love where there is no will.”

— Indira Gandhi

“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”

— Indira Gandhi

“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.”

— Indira Gandhi

“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

“People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.”

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi

“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.”

— Indira Gandhi

“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.”

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi

“Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.”

— 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

“Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.”

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi