Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend.

God's word is : He who strives never perishes.

When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.

A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.

I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.

I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion.

A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.

Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.

It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

Without prayer there is no inward peace.

Execution of the constructive programme in its entirety means more than Swaraj. It means Ram Raj, Khudai Sultanat or the Divine Kingdom.

The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.

An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.

Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

Happiness eludes us if we run after it.

When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

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

To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.

To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.

Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

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

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.

I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.

A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

Violence always thrived on counter violence.

There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.

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

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.

Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.