Quotes by Indira Gandhi

“Questions are the creative acts of intelligence”

“Good questions outrank easy answers.”

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

“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found”

“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”

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

“Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.”

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

You cant shake hands with a clenched fist.

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

My grandfather once told me that there are 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 there.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I dont think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

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