Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent conquer him with love.

To a man with an empty stomach food is god.

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

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.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent instrument of action.

I consider myself a Hindu Christian Moslem Jew Buddhist and Confucian.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour his religion his soul and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.

There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.

It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.