Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
Mahatma Gandhi
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Mahatma Gandhi
Morality is contraband in war.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
I consider myself a Hindu Christian Moslem Jew Buddhist and Confucian.
Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
I consider myself a Hindu Christian Moslem Jew Buddhist and Confucian.
Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
To a man with an empty stomach food is god.
Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent conquer him with love.
Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is the function of the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into.
Mahatma Gandhi
If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi
I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
Mahatma Gandhi
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Mahatma Gandhi
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.
Mahatma Gandhi
If I want to deprive you of your watch, I shall certainly have to fight for it; if I want to buy your watch, I shall have to pay for it; and if I want a gift, I shall have to plead for it; and, according to the means I employ, the watch is stolen property, my own property, or a donation. Thus we see three different results from three different means. Will you still say that the means do not matter?
Mahatma Gandhi
I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others'religions as we would have them to respect our own, a friendly study of theworld's religions is a sacred duty.
Mahatma Gandhi
I am & have been for years a confirmed anti-vaccinationist. Anti-vaccination has no backing from the orthodox medical opinion. A medical man who expresses himself against vaccination loses caste. Tremendous pecuniary interests too have grown around vaccination.
Mahatma Gandhi
They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
Mahatma Gandhi
I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.
Mahatma Gandhi
Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.
Mahatma Gandhi
While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils.
Mahatma Gandhi
My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.
Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Mahatma Gandhi
There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.
Mahatma Gandhi
In the very first month of Indian Opinion, I realized that the sole aim of journalism should be service. The newspaper press is a great power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges whole countrysides and devastates crops, even so an uncontrolled pen serves but to destroy. If the control is from without, it proves more poisonous than want of control. It can be profitable only when exercised from within. If this line of reasoning is correct, how many of the journals in the world would stand the test? But who would stop those that are useless? And who should be the judge? The useful and the useless must, like good and evil generally, go on together, and man must make his choice.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
Mahatma Gandhi
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.
Mahatma Gandhi
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma Gandhi
Selfishness is blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.
Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.
Mahatma Gandhi
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
Mahatma Gandhi
In a gentle way, you can shake the world
Mahatma Gandhi
In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.
Mahatma Gandhi
Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.
Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing is impossible for pure love.
Mahatma Gandhi
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Mahatma Gandhi
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Mahatma Gandhi
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.
Mahatma Gandhi
To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true.
Mahatma Gandhi
I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher
Mahatma Gandhi
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Mahatma Gandhi
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mahatma Gandhi