100+ Indira Gandhi Quotes, Messages & Wishes

She was the first woman Prime Minister of India. Indira Gandhi is also known as the ‘Iron Lady of India’ asIndira Gandhi Quotes she is considered one of the strongest leaders in the history of India. She was born on November 19, 1917 to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Kamala Nehru in Allahabad.

100+ Indira Gandhi Quotes, Messages & Wishes

Her full name is as Indira Priyadarshini Nehru. She served as Prime Minister of India from January, 1966 to March, 1977 and again from January, 1980 until her sudden demise in October, 1984.

  1. People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. [Indira Gandhi].
  2. I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. 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. [Indira Gandhi].
  3. 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].Indira Gandhi QuotesIndira Gandhi Quotes
  4. We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters? [Indira Gandhi].Indira Gandhi QuotesIndira Gandhi Quotes
  5. There is not love where there is no will. [Indira Gandhi].
  6. You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.”
  7. “Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.”
  8. “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.”
  9. “I am not a person to be pressured – by anybody or any nation.”
  10. “All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading freedom struggles and so on.Indira Gandhi QuotesIndira Gandhi Quotes
  11. I am not a person to be pressured – by anybody or any nation. [Indira Gandhi].
  12. We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives. [Indira Gandhi].
  13. Ability is not always gauged by examination. [Indira Gandhi]
  14. This is why we feel that democracy’s important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.”
  15. “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 QuotesIndira Gandhi Quotes
  16. “The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”
  17. “Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.”
  18. “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.”
  19. 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].
  20. This is why we feel that democracy’s important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions. [Indira Gandhi].
  21. “Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.”
  22. “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.”
  23. “I am not a person to be pressured – by anybody or any nation.”
  24. “All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading freedom struggles and so on.”
  25. “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.”
  26. “The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”
  27. “Martyrdom does not end something, it is only a beginning.”
  28. “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.”
  29. “My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.”
  30. “People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights

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