Indira Gandhi quotes

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

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• peace

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

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• forgiveness

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

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• progress

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

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• duties

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

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• attempt

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

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• actions

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.

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• patriotism

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

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

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• activity

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.

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• actions

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.

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• competition

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

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• arc

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.

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• action

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.

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• work

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

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• martyr