Indira Gandhi Quotes

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Indira Gandhi

Profession : Statesman

Birth : November 19, 1917

You can't 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

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

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

Indira Gandhi

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Indira Gandhi

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

Indira Gandhi

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

Indira Gandhi

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

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

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

Indira Gandhi

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

Indira Gandhi

The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.

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

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

Indira Gandhi

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

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Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

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I'm certainly not a workaholic.

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

Indira Gandhi

I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.

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