Mohandas K. Gandhi is considered one of the greatest figures of the 20th century. Check out and learn more about life through Gandhi’s quotes.
- The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- 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.
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- 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.
- It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
- You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- 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.
- 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.
- A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
- You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
- I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
- The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
- If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
- We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
- The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
- Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
- Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.
- A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
- A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
- No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- 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?
- Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
- A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.