Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.

Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

Life is one indivisible whole.

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.

Adversity is the mother of progress.

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

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

I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed

The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

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

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

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

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

Restraint never ruins one's health.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.

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

Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

As the means, so the end.

It Is possible to live in peace.

The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.