Indira Gandhi quotes

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

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
- Indira Gandhi

Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
- 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

I am not a person to be pressured by anybody or any nation.
- Indira Gandhi

All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading freedom struggles and so on.
- Indira Gandhi

This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.
- 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

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

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
- Indira Gandhi

I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.
- Indira Gandhi

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

There is not love where there is no will.
- Indira Gandhi

I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
- Indira Gandhi

I'm certainly not a workaholic.
- Indira Gandhi

Ability is not always gauged by examination.
- Indira Gandhi

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

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
- Indira Gandhi

I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.
- Indira Gandhi

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

Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.
- Indira Gandhi

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
- Indira Gandhi

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
- Indira Gandhi

The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
- Indira Gandhi

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