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Indira Gandhi
Indian
Statesman
About the author
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
Indira Gandhi,
Indian
Statesman
#Want
#Nothing
#Money
My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
Indira Gandhi,
Indian
Statesman
#Woman
#Father
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,
Indian
Statesman
#Strength
#Nation
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
Indira Gandhi,
Indian
Statesman
#Games
#Being
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Indira Gandhi,
Indian
Statesman
#Anger
#Argument
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,
Indian
Statesman
#Will
#Growth
#Nation
#Service
#Blood
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira Gandhi,
Indian
Statesman
#Virtue
#Forgiveness
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,
Indian
Statesman
#Action
#Right
#Now
#First
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Indira Gandhi,
Indian
Statesman
#Power
#Question
#Progress
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
Indira Gandhi,
Indian
Statesman
#End
#Beginning
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira Gandhi,
Indian
Statesman
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,
Indian
Statesman
#Work
#First
#Credit
#Competition
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
Indira Gandhi,
Indian
Statesman
#People
#Forget
#Rights
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,
Indian
Statesman
#People
#Work
#First
#Credit
#Competition
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
Indira Gandhi,
Indian
Statesman
#Cows
There is not love where there is no will.
Indira Gandhi,
Indian
Statesman
#Love
#Will
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi,
Indian
Statesman
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,
Indian
Statesman
#Action
#Will
#Death
#Fear
#Thought
#Violence
#Dying