Top 60 Indira Gandhi Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life is a continuous process of adjustment.”

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi

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3. “Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”

— Indira Gandhi

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4. “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

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5. “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

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6. “Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.”

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi

8. “People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.”

— Indira Gandhi

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9. “Popularity is not a guarantee of quality.”

— Indira Gandhi

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10. “You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.”

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi

14. “Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.”

— Indira Gandhi

15. “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.”

— Indira Gandhi

16. “The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.”

— Indira Gandhi

17. “I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.”

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi

19. “Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.”

— Indira Gandhi

20. “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.”

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi

22. “Home is wherever I go.”

— Indira Gandhi

23. “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.”

— Indira Gandhi

24. “The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.”

— Indira Gandhi

25. “There is not love where there is no will.”

— Indira Gandhi

26. “Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.”

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi

31. “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

32. “The longer one doesn’t write, the more difficult it is to communicate.”

— Indira Gandhi

33. “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.”

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi

35. “India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”

— Indira Gandhi

36. “My father was a saint, I’m not.”

— Indira Gandhi

37. “Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they’re joyous about it.”

— Indira Gandhi

38. “How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?”

— Indira Gandhi

39. “Would you consider a man or a woman to be complicated? Is it that difficult to understand both the sexes? We say that we know what the other sex is all about, but is that really true? Perhaps the following witty, funny quotes and sayings can help simplify things down about men.”

— Indira Gandhi

40. “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

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

— Indira Gandhi

42. “My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.”

— Indira Gandhi

43. “Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.”

— Indira Gandhi

44. “Ability is not always gauged by examination.”

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi

46. “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.”

— Indira Gandhi

47. “It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.”

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Indira Gandhi

49. “The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.”

— Indira Gandhi

50. “Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.”

— Indira Gandhi

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