Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

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 othersto act according to his own view of truth.

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.

Selfishness is blind.

There's no God higher than truth.

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 believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

My Life is My Message

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

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

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into.

Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent instrument of action.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.This means the when you go to sleep you close your eyes and you are and look like you are dead but then when you wake up it looks like you are reborn because you are up and ready.

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.

Solitude is a catalyst for innovation

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

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent conquer him with love.

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momen

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

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.

There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

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

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

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.

The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

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

In the very first month of Indian Opinion, I realized that the sole aim of journalism should be service. The newspaper press is a great power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges whole countrysides and devastates crops, even so an uncontrolled pen serves but to destroy. If the control is from without, it proves more poisonous than want of control. It can be profitable only when exercised from within. If this line of reasoning is correct, how many of the journals in the world would stand the test? But who would stop those that are useless? And who should be the judge? The useful and the useless must, like good and evil generally, go on together, and man must make his choice.

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

Violence begins with the fork.

I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any

Live simply so others may simply live

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.

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 than the one derived from fear of punishment.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.