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100+ Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Mahatma Gandhi, or Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, was born at Porbandar in Gujarat, on October 2, 1869. People also call “BAPU” or “Father Of The Nation.”

He was not an ordinary man. He was God’s gift to India. Gandhiji believed in non-violence and love. He was against untouchability and all sorts of injustice in society. His body was frail but his soul was mighty. His philosophy is so great that he is regarded as “Mahatma.”

“Simple living and High Thinking” was the motto of his life. He gave us so many quotes about Life, Love and Nonviolence. Following is the list of Mahatma Gandhi’s Quotes.

The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

where there is love there is life.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Non violence is a weapon of the strong.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

God has no religion.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

My life is my message.

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Be the change you want to see in the word.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without prayer.

I wish to change their minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

A man is a sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.

God has given me no control over the following moment. I am concerned about taking care of the present.

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

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

If you want real peace in the world, start with children.

Dreams at first seem impossible, Then seem improbable, and finally when we commit ourselves, become inevitable.

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

It is health that is the real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

First, they ignore you, then laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

A nation's culture resides in the heart and in the soul of its people.

Action expresses priorities.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

The future depends on what you do today.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not even one man’s greed.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

you must be the change you wish to see in the world.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

We have to hand over the earth, the air, the land and the water to the children at least as it was handed over to us.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the “Voice within” tells you.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

The weak can never forgive.Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

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

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

The one religion is beyond all speech.

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise ever moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, yet it is the humblest imaginable.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

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

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

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends but to befriend one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

Have faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the whole ocean doesn’t become dirty.

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

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

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.

First they ignore You, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

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.

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

What is faith worth if it is not translated into action?

Faith becomes lame when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

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.

A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

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.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one’s moral and intellectual bankruptcy and it can only start a viscous cycle.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

We must become the change we want to see.

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

The most heinous and the cruelest crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it.

Faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it dies.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

Patience means self-suffering.

I’m a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.I simply want to please my own conscience, which is God.

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

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

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.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Hate the sin and love the sinner.

Religions are different roads converging on the same point.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Democracy and violence can ill go together. Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

It may be long before the law of love will be recognized in international affairs. The machinery's of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

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