Great Sayings: Indira Gandhi Quotes

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

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.

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

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

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

The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.

Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

A nation's strength ultimately consist in what it can do on its own and not in what it can borrow from other.

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

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

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

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

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.