Indira Gandhi Quotes

Ability is not always gauged by examination.

Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.

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.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

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

All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

My father was a saint, I'm not.

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

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.

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

It is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than a deeply held belief, the basis of their actions. They do not seem to mind harming society as a whole in the pursuit of their immediate objective. No society can survive if it yields to the demands of frenzy, whether of the few or the many.

I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have been tolerated for so long, had the people been European?

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.

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.

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.

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.

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

Home is wherever I go.

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.

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.

We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?

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

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.

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

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

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.

Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.

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

What is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.

In today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

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

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible

Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.

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

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.

The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.

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

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

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.