Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for.

Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages.

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.

When the ego dies, the soul awakes.

Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.

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.

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.

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

Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.

I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.

Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex.

It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.

Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust.

The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.

Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.

Where there is love there is life.

My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.

Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.

The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.

Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

Find purpose. The means will follow.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.

I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings.

What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.