Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
It is easy enough to be friendly to ones friends but to befriend one who regards
himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.
To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly
act.
Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity
of life for me.
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant
abandonment of ones own religion.
The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of
suffering without anger and without malice.
I believe that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without
prayer.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of
nonviolence to cover impotence.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words
become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your
values, Your values become your destiny.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at
purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how
it treats its animals.
I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every mans needs, but not even one mans greed.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads
bowing in prayer.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth
become error because nobody sees it.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act
depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed, always aim at
purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission
can alter the course of history.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot
practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
My life is my message.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is
responsible for the misdeeds of all the others.
Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is
nonviolence.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to
solve most of the worlds problem.
We have to handover the earth, the air, the land and the water to the children at least
as it was handed over to us.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, yet it is the humblest imaginable.
You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there
will be no results.
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his
intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated
people.
Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between
individuals.
Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one
derived from fear of punishment.
Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.
To answer brutality with brutality is to admit ones moral and intellectual bankruptcy
and it can only start a viscous cycle.
What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is
what the Voice within tells you.
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended
against the heaviest odds.
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay
for living?
The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you
distrust him.
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent.
God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore,
goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God