Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi; née Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and central figure of the Indian National Congress party, and to date the only female Prime Minister of India. Indira Gandhi was the only child of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. She served as Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, making her the second-longest-serving Prime Minister after her father...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 November 1917
CityAllahabad, India
CountryIndia
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.
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is.
Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
It is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than a deeply held belief, the basis of their actions. They do not seem to mind harming society as a whole in the pursuit of their immediate objective. No society can survive if it yields to the demands of frenzy, whether of the few or the many.
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people ... I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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.