Mahatma Gandhi Quotes (179 Quotes)

Hatred can be overcome only by love.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

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

been more severely felt than today, especially in the context of India-Pakistan relations.

A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

I think it would be a good idea.

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.

The law an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Justice will come when it is deserved by our being and feeling strong.

There go my people, I must hurry to catch up with them for I am their leader.

A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.

If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

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.

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

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather

My commitment is to truth not consistency.

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

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

I do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating.

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

Never make a promise in haste.

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.

The golden rule of conduct ... is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and from different points of vision.

In the march toward Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain.

Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.

The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

Truth and nonviolence are no cloistered virtues but are applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market-place.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.