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.

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

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

I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people ... 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.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

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

Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is.

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

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.

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

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.

Life is a continuous process of adjustment.

what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

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

Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same - toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

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

Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.

When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.