Famous Gandhi Quotations

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"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"The future depends on what we do in the present."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man"
by Mahatma Gandhi
"A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice"
by Mahatma Gandhi
"The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"Truth never damages a cause that is just."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."
by Indira Gandhi
"What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected"
by Mahatma Gandhi
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
by Indira Gandhi
"Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it"
by Mahatma Gandhi
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"I believe in the fundamental Truth of all the great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God given. I came to the conclusion long ago... that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion"
by Mahatma Gandhi
"I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you"
by Mahatma Gandhi
"It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and mortal persecution"
by Mahatma Gandhi
"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it"
by Mahatma Gandhi
"Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible"
by Mahatma Gandhi
"Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest"
by Mahatma Gandhi
"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"The good man is the friend of all living things."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
by Gandhi
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
by Gandhi
"A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"Fear has its use but cowardice has none."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"Those who know how to think need no teachers."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"Action expresses priorities."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"Poverty is the worst form of violence."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"(On Western civilization) I think it would be a good idea."
by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes"
by Mahatma Gandhi
"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"A man's true wealth is the good he had done to his fellowmen."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others."
by Indira Gandhi
"A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"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."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul."
by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"All my games were political games I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake."
by Indira Nehru Gandhi
"All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"Almost anything you do is insignificant, But it is very important that you do it."
by Mahathma Gandhi
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"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."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"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."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind"
by Mahatma Gandhi
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
by Mahatma Gandhi
"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up."
by Mohandas Gandhi
"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding."
by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages."
by Mohandas Gandhi


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