Indira Gandhi quote: "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."

I'm certainly not a workaholic.
INDIRA GANDHI

I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.
INDIRA GANDHI

I am frequently attacked.
INDIRA GANDHI

If I see something dirty or untidy, I have to clean it up.
INDIRA GANDHI

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us agains...
INDIRA GANDHI

I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my f...
INDIRA GANDHI

The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
INDIRA GANDHI

My son had nothing to do with policy or decision making, nor did I discuss the elections or any othe...
INDIRA GANDHI

We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the ...
INDIRA GANDHI

I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's ...
INDIRA GANDHI

I don't think my father was my mentor.
INDIRA GANDHI

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

I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had t...
INDIRA GANDHI

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

I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.
INDIRA GANDHI

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy ab...
INDIRA GANDHI

I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
INDIRA GANDHI

This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explo...
INDIRA GANDHI

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from...
INDIRA GANDHI

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
INDIRA GANDHI

There is not love where there is no will.
INDIRA GANDHI

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can bo...
INDIRA GANDHI

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small s...
INDIRA GANDHI

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
INDIRA GANDHI

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
INDIRA GANDHI

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
INDIRA GANDHI

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, t...
INDIRA GANDHI

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. -Indira Gandhi.
INDIRA GANDHI

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who...
INDIRA GANDHI

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
INDIRA GANDHI

We have believed--and we do believe now--that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, tha...
INDIRA GANDHI

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
INDIRA GANDHI

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
INDIRA GANDHI

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
INDIRA GANDHI

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the...
INDIRA GANDHI

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

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

Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
INDIRA GANDHI

We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not wo...
INDIRA GANDHI

I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my peop...
INDIRA GANDHI

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
INDIRA GANDHI

The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industriali...
INDIRA GANDHI

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

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in t...
INDIRA GANDHI

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

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into sma...
INDIRA GANDHI

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

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

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who...
INDIRA GANDHI

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take th...
INDIRA GANDHI

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
INDIRA GANDHI

Where there is love there is life.
INDIRA GANDHI

To meet her is to feel utterly humble,
INDIRA GANDHI

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
INDIRA GANDHI

A letter containing names and addresses of People's Consultative Group (PCG) members was formally ha...
INDIRA GANDHI

These are methods used by all parties
INDIRA GANDHI

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow...
INDIRA GANDHI

We would rather starve than sell our national honor
INDIRA GANDHI

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people
INDIRA GANDHI

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people; those who do the work and those who...
INDIRA GANDHI

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who...
INDIRA GANDHI

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take t...
INDIRA GANDHI

Youth is beautiful.
INDIRA VARMA

I like how small you can be on TV.
INDIRA VARMA

I love theater. I also love radio. I love language.
INDIRA VARMA

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
INDIRA VARMA

I depend on good editors and a good director.
INDIRA VARMA

I've love the challenge of doing something new. Bollywood is magical.
INDIRA VARMA

Fruits doesn't fall far from the tree but there seeds can go places
and wherever they go
b...
INDIRA MUKHOPADHYAY

The next round of talks between the Centre and PCG will be very crucial as likely outcome of the mee...
INDIRA GOSWAMI

The ongoing peace process is a historical step. People of Assam would remain grateful to you and you...
INDIRA GOSWAMI

I humbly request you to kindly consider the removal of the security forces from the affected areas t...
INDIRA GOSWAMI

We hope to discuss all contentious issues with the government across the table since our main aim is...
INDIRA GOSWAMI

The government will hold the second round of talks with us from Feb 7 in New Delhi, though the modal...
INDIRA GOSWAMI

The government of India has invited us for the second round of talks Feb 7.
INDIRA GOSWAMI

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you. Then you win.
GANDHI

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to w...
GANDHI

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
GANDHI

I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the adva...
GANDHI

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviole...
GANDHI

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love yo...
GANDHI

He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
GANDHI

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
GANDHI

Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was aliv...
GANDHI

The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose. -Gandhi.
GANDHI

Don't let anybody walk trough your mind with dirty feet.
GANDHI

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
GANDHI

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
GANDHI

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
GANDHI

We must become the change we want to see.
GANDHI

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, t...
GANDHI

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Moralit...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
MAHATMA GANDHI

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. Th...
RAHUL GANDHI

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
MAHATMA GANDHI

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of th...
MAHATMA GANDHI

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There i...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Where love is, there God is also.
MAHATMA GANDHI

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and ...
MAHATMA GANDHI

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God&...
MAHATMA GANDHI

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
MAHATMA GANDHI

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the ba...
MAHATMA GANDHI

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
MAHATMA GANDHI

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Peace is its own reward.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
MAHATMA GANDHI

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
MAHATMA GANDHI

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse t...
MAHATMA GANDHI

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of th...
MAHATMA GANDHI

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Action expresses priorities.
MAHATMA GANDHI

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
MAHATMA GANDHI

My life is my message.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Self-respect knows no considerations.
MAHATMA GANDHI

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
MAHATMA GANDHI

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes al...
MAHATMA GANDHI

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, th...
MAHATMA GANDHI

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree...
RAJIV GANDHI

India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.
RAHUL GANDHI

Millions of Indians are brimming with energy.
RAHUL GANDHI

If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.
RAHUL GANDHI

There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a ...
RAHUL GANDHI

For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the...
RAHUL GANDHI

What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown...
RAHUL GANDHI

It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
RAHUL GANDHI

A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them...
RAHUL GANDHI

I believe that a politician needs to be with people.
RAHUL GANDHI

I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in India...
RAHUL GANDHI

Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about ...
RAHUL GANDHI

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to th...
MAHATMA GANDHI

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
MAHATMA GANDHI

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function nece...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, w...
MAHATMA GANDHI

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no no...
MAHATMA GANDHI

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
MAHATMA GANDHI

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
MAHATMA GANDHI

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a who...
MAHATMA GANDHI

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
MAHATMA GANDHI

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)
VIRCHAND GANDHI

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a wh...
MAHATMA GANDHI

I was reading.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
MAHATMA GANDHI

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have ...
MAHATMA GANDHI

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their ...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Nothing is impossible for pure love.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
MAHATMA GANDHI

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by plac...
MAHATMA GANDHI

One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the stricte...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serv...
MAHATMA GANDHI

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be red...
MAHATMA GANDHI

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war i...
MAHATMA GANDHI

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
MAHATMA GANDHI

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, b...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
MAHATMA GANDHI

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
MAHATMA GANDHI

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest mig...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
MAHATMA GANDHI

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
MAHATMA GANDHI

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shal...
MAHATMA GANDHI

God has no religion.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is be...
MAHATMA GANDHI

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
MAHATMA GANDHI

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
MAHATMA GANDHI

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as yo...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
MAHATMA GANDHI

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It m...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
MAHATMA GANDHI

The future depends on what you do today.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
MAHATMA GANDHI

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent ...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, someth...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
MAHATMA GANDHI

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat co...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a c...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
MAHATMA GANDHI

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no result...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Hate the sin, love the sinner.
MAHATMA GANDHI

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirt...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that ...
MAHATMA GANDHI

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
MAHATMA GANDHI

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, fr...
MAHATMA GANDHI

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Powe...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Where there is love there is life.
MAHATMA GANDHI

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant bru...
MAHATMA GANDHI

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
MAHATMA GANDHI

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of th...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwi...
MAHATMA GANDHI

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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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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