My grandfather once told me that there are 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 there.
~ Indira Gandhi
Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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.
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.
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.
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
There is not love where there is no will.
The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.