Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

There is not a moment when I do not feel the presence of a Witness whose eye misses nothing and with whom I strive to keep in tune.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Continue to grow and evolve.

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.

It's not just words. Action expresses priorities.

My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.

The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.

My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

Eye for eye and the world will go blind.

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

Nations are born out of travail and suffering

My commitment is to truth not consistency.

Without action, you aren't going anywhere.

I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.

Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops.

We do not know the laws of God, nor their working.

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done.

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue.

Faith is a function of the heart.

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.

There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.

If you want real peace in the world, start with children.

My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.

My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.

To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

I am a proud staunch Sanatani Hindu.

It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.