Indira Gandhi Quotes

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

I’ve never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.

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.

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

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

I’m certainly not a workaholic.

The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.

I am not a person to be pressured – by anybody or any nation.

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

Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.

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

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