Indira Gandhi Quotes

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.

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.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

Just when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.

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

Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.

Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.

Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.