Mahatma Gandhi famous quotes

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Love #Inspirational #Life

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Spiritual #Greatness #Humanity

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Positive #Happiness

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Wise #Spiritual #Prayer

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Spiritual #Freedom

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Wise #Peace

The good man is the friend of all living things.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Life #Nature

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Peace #War

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Motivational #Graduation

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Love #Inspirational #Country

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Night #Independence #India

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Peace #War #Blood

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.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Freedom #Doe #Delight

If you do nothing there will be no results
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Results

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Karma #Animal #Pet

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Peace #War

Nothing is impossible for pure love.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Life #Impossible #Pure Love

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Funny #Sarcastic #Spiritual

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Beautiful #Flower #Godly

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Love #Inspirational #Peace

Simplicity is the essence of universality.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Essence #Simplicity

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Running #Rights #Leaving

Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Spring #Winter #Men

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Yoga #Light #Darkness

There is no road towards peace; peace is the road
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Peace

Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Wise #Flower #Essence

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Dog #Nature #Greatness

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Worship #Found #Worship God

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Positive #Strength #Inspiring

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Positive #Being Yourself

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.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Faith #Hope

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Spiritual #Flow #Force

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Citizens #Lawlessness #Sacred

Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Real #Community #Being Real

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Addiction #Ascent #Easy

Change yourself - you are in control.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspiration #Change Yourself

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Philosophical #Animal #Discovery

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Spiritual #Philosophical #Animal

Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Fearless #Inspire #Truthful

Good government is no substitute for self-government.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Government #Self #Citizenship

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Goal #Doe #Outcomes

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Snakes #Wish #Trying

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Struggle #Done #Body

Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Men #Religion #Way

I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Men #Issues #Goal

After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Errors #Long #Study

Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Growth #Today #World

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Adversity #Doe #Needs

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Teacher #Book #Pupils

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Character #Sound #Able

Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Practice #Needs #Defense

The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Greed #Needs #Earth

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Hate #Hatred #Poison

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Doctors #Numbers #Disease

Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Doubt #Cases #Form

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Leadership #Character #People

Be the change that you want to see
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Philosophy #Want

The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Reality #Differences #Majority

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Men #Political #Trying

President means chief servant
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Mean #Political #President

Faith is the function of the heart.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Heart #Emotion #Function

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Listening

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Machines #Violence

There is no path to peace; peace is the path.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Life #Path

When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Disappointment #Joy #Doubt

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Believe #Omnipotence #Monsters

... in the midst of death life persists ...
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Death #Life Death #Midst

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Believe #Oneness #Soul

Life is but an endless series of experiments.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Life #Life Is #Endless

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Power #Punishment #Two

I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Law #Destruction #Midst

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Peace #Force #Mankind

Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Justice #Doe #Slumber

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Jealousy #Waiting #Doe

I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Party #Years #Practice

Where there is love there is life.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Life #Marriage

Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Truth #Mean #Violence

Poverty is the worst form of violence.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Peace #Poverty

Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Teaching #Self #Government

I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Self #Simplicity #Islam

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Fear #Hate #Thinking

It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Too Late #Capable

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Life #Peace #Clever

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Spiritual #Nature

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Spiritual #Wisdom

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Spiritual #Calmness #Aggravating

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Religion #Noble #Records

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Learning #Experts

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Moving Forward #Heart #Creative

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Children #Father #Air

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Life #Peace

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Truth #Light #People

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Spiritual #Prayer

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Encouragement #Freedom #Business

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Honesty #Believe

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Life #Education

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Life #Death #Morning