Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
It’s a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any
The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.
Always believe in your dreams, because if you don’t, you’ll still have hope.
We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.
They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.
The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man’s Swaraj.
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life’s activities.
Non-co-operation is a nation’s determination to improve.
Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes hat to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him. In this way, a true teacher regards himself as a student of his students. If you will teach your pupils with this attitude, you will benefit much from them.
The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
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.
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west… keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
Live simply that others might simply live.
If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.
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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Education
Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?
An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Life
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
My life is my message.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Cleanliness
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures’ hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Change
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Be the change you are trying to create.
We must become the change we want to see.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Customer
The Customer is Not an Interruption in Our Work; He Is the Purpose of It
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Helping Others
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Animals
Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
You can judge a society by the way it treats it’s animals
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Love
Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Leadership
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
When you are right, you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.
A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes be the Change
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Teachers
If you give me rice, I’ll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I’ll eat every day.
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Behavior
Behavior is the mirror in which we can display our image.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes Eye for an Eye
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Peace
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.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Work
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Youth
If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.
Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.
If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes for Independence
We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.
We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.
To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Success
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on God
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Business
If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.
All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Belief
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.
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Truth
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Dreams
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.
A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Republic Day
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.
I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.
A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Environment
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.
The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Determination
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.
If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.
Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Freedom
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes First They Ignore You
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Forgiveness
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
Forgiveness is choosing to love.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Humanity
If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is ‘making sacred’. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.
