Indira Gandhi Quotes

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira Gandhi

Forgiveness, Brave, Virtue

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

Forget, Remember, Rights

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

Strong, Proud, Service

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

Learn, Alive, Activity

There is not love where there is no will.
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

Happen, Small, Big

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

Strength, Others, Nation

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

Death, Fear, Thought

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

Money, Nothing, Everything

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

Power, Human, Progress

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Indira Gandhi

Good, Anger, Argument

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi

Cannot, Hands, Fist

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

End, Beginning, Martyrdom

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

Father, Woman, Political

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

Political, Games, Burned

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

Enough, Daring, Politician

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Statesman

Born: November 19, 1917

Died: October 31, 1984

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