Quotes from Indira Gandhi

When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.

I am frequently attacked.

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

The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.

Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers.

It's a law of life - check it and you'll see it holds true in every situation of life.

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

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

They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!

As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

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

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.

I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.

I'm certainly not a workaholic.

I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.

With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls.

It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.

You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.

To become our enemies - what an absurdity. A crazy absurdity when you stop to think that we, Muslims and Hindus, had conducted the struggle for independence together.

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.

I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.

The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.

I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.

I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.