There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.
Mahatma GandhiAlways aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
Mahatma Gandhi
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
Mahatma Gandhi
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it–always.
Mahatma Gandhi
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
Mahatma Gandhi
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mohandas Gandhi
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Mohandas Gandhi
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mohandas Gandhi
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Mohandas Gandhi
Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.
Mohandas Gandhi
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mohandas Gandhi
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.
Mohandas Gandhi
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Mohandas Gandhi
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
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Mohandas Gandhi
It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.
Mohandas Gandhi
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mohandas Gandhi
It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mohandas Gandhi
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
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
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
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Mohandas Gandhi
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
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
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Mohandas Gandhi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mohandas Gandhi
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mohandas Gandhi
Man can never be a woman’s equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mohandas Gandhi
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.
Mohandas Gandhi
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Mohandas Gandhi
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mohandas Gandhi
Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mohandas Gandhi
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
Mohandas Gandhi
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mohandas Gandhi
Morality is contraband in war.
Mohandas Gandhi
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mohandas Gandhi
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
Mohandas Gandhi
My life is my message.
Mohandas Gandhi
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Mohandas Gandhi
Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
Mohandas Gandhi
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Mohandas Gandhi
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Mohandas Gandhi
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Mohandas Gandhi
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Mohandas Gandhi
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
Mohandas Gandhi
Non-violence is the article of faith.
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
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
Mohandas Gandhi
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mohandas Gandhi
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Mohandas Gandhi
One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.
Mohandas Gandhi
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mohandas Gandhi
Peace is its own reward.
Mohandas Gandhi
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mohandas Gandhi
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mohandas Gandhi
Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.
Mohandas Gandhi
Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
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
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mohandas Gandhi
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
Mohandas Gandhi
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Mohandas Gandhi
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.
Mohandas Gandhi
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Mohandas Gandhi
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Mohandas Gandhi
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Mohandas Gandhi
Self-respect knows no considerations.
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
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
Mohandas Gandhi
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mohandas Gandhi
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Mohandas Gandhi
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mohandas Gandhi
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.
Mohandas Gandhi
The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
Mohandas Gandhi
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mohandas Gandhi
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mohandas Gandhi
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
Mohandas Gandhi
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Mohandas Gandhi
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Mohandas Gandhi
The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
Mohandas Gandhi
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mohandas Gandhi
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.
Mohandas Gandhi
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Mohandas Gandhi
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Mohandas Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mohandas Gandhi
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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 is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.
Mohandas Gandhi
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
Mohandas Gandhi
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mohandas Gandhi
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
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
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Mohandas Gandhi
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Mohandas Gandhi
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mohandas Gandhi
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mohandas Gandhi
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Mohandas Gandhi
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mohandas Gandhi
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mohandas Gandhi
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Mohandas Gandhi
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mohandas Gandhi
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
Mohandas Gandhi
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
Mohandas Gandhi
We must become the change we want to see in the world.
Mohandas 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.
Mohandas Gandhi
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
Mohandas Gandhi
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mohandas Gandhi
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mohandas Gandhi
What is true of the individual will be to-morrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
Mohandas Gandhi
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
Mohandas Gandhi
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mohandas Gandhi
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
Mohandas Gandhi
Where love is, there God is also.
Mohandas Gandhi
Where there is love there is life.
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 don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Mohandas Gandhi
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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
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