Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Page 2

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

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

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

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.

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.

Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves.

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

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

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

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

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

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Nothing is impossible for pure love.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.

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.

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

Ask the poor. They'll tell you who the christians are.

Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

If I want to deprive you of your watch, I shall certainly have to fight for it; if I want to buy your watch, I shall have to pay for it; and if I want a gift, I shall have to plead for it; and, according to the means I employ, the watch is stolen property, my own property, or a donation. Thus we see three different results from three different means. Will you still say that the means do not matter?

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 in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

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

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.

God has no religion.

Where there is love there is life.

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

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

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.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

But so long as I lived under a system of Government based on force and voluntarily partook of the many facilities and privileges it created for me, I was bound to help that Government to the extent of my ability when it was engaged in a war, unless I non-co-operated with the Government and renounced to the utmost of my capacity the privileges it offered me.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?