Indira Nehru Gandhi Famous Quotes



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.

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

"All my games were political games I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake."

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

"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. (Handwritten statement found in her residence)"


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