Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an advocate and pioneer of nonviolent social protest. He was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement from Great Britain. As he said, “I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.”
My life is my message. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Where love is, there God is also. ~Mohandas Gandhi
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. ~Mohandas Gandhi
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. ~Mohandas Gandhi
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. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain. ~Mohandas Gandhi
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts. ~Mohandas Gandhi
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Man can never be a woman’s equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. ~Mohandas Gandhi
There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed. ~Mohandas Gandhi
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. ~Mohandas Gandhi
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. ~Mohandas Gandhi
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. ~Mohandas Gandhi
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. ~Mohandas Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~Mohandas Gandhi
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ~Mohandas Gandhi
There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for. ~Mohandas Gandhi
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. ~Mohandas Gandhi
I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. ~Mohandas Gandhi
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. ~Mohandas Gandhi
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. ~Mohandas Gandhi
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. ~Mohandas Gandhi
A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. ~Mohandas Gandhi
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Nobody can hurt me without my permission. ~Mohandas Gandhi
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. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. ~Mohandas Gandhi
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ~Mohandas Gandhi
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ~Mohandas Gandhi
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall — think of it, always. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Action expresses priorities. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. ~Mohandas Gandhi
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. ~Mohandas Gandhi
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. ~Mohandas Gandhi
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. ~Mohandas Gandhi
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Be the change that you want to see in the world. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Fear has its use but cowardice has none. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Imitation is the sincerest flattery. ~Mohandas Gandhi
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh. ~Mohandas Gandhi
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone. ~Mohandas Gandhi
I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. ~Mohandas 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. ~Mohandas Gandhi
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. ~Mohandas Gandhi
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. ~Mohandas Gandhi
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Self-respect knows no considerations. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Poverty is the worst form of violence. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. ~Mohandas Gandhi
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study. ~Mohandas Gandhi
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. ~Mohandas Gandhi
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. ~Mohandas Gandhi