Mahatma Gandhi Quotes And Sayings

Prayer Is The Key Of The Morning And The Bolt Of The Evening.

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.

To Give Pleasure To A Single Heart By A Single Act Is Better Than A Thousand Heads Bowing In Prayer.

In Prayer It Is Better To Have A Heart Without Words Than Words Without A Heart.

When I Admire The Wonders Of A Sunset Or The Beauty Of The Moon, My Soul Expands In The Worship Of The Creator.

It Is The Quality Of Our Work Which Will Please God And Not The Quantity.

Non-cooperation With Evil Is As Much A Duty As Is Cooperation With Good.

An Ounce Of Practice Is Worth More Than Tons Of Preaching.

That Service Is The Noblest Which Is Rendered For Its Own Sake.

Always Aim At Complete Harmony Of Thought And Word And Deed. Always Aim At Purifying Your Thoughts And Everything Will Be Well.

Non-violence Is The Article Of Faith.

Those Who Say Religion Has Nothing To Do With Politics Do Not Know What Religion Is.

Faith Is Not Something To Grasp, It Is A State To Grow Into.

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.

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.

Poverty Is The Worst Form Of Violence.

Live As If You Were To Die Tomorrow. Learn As If You Were To Live Forever.

I Suppose Leadership At One Time Meant Muscles; But Today It Means Getting Along With People.

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.

Interdependence Is And Ought To Be As Much The Ideal Of Man As Self-sufficiency. Man Is A Social Being.

Those Who Know How To Think Need No Teachers.

God Is, Even Though The Whole World Deny Him. Truth Stands, Even If There Be No Public Support. It Is Self-sustained.

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.

Violent Means Will Give Violent Freedom. That Would Be A Menace To The World And To India Herself.

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.

An Eye For An Eye Only Ends Up Making The Whole World Blind.

My Religion Is Based On Truth And Non-violence. Truth Is My God. Non-violence Is The Means Of Realising Him.

Let Us All Be Brave Enough To Die The Death Of A Martyr, But Let No One Lust For Martyrdom.

Justice That Love Gives Is A Surrender, Justice That Law Gives Is A Punishment.

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.

If Co-operation Is A Duty, I Hold That Non-co-operation Also Under Certain Conditions Is Equally A Duty.

Gentleness, Self-sacrifice And Generosity Are The Exclusive Possession Of No One Race Or Religion.

God Sometimes Does Try To The Uttermost Those Whom He Wishes To Bless.

Man Becomes Great Exactly In The Degree In Which He Works For The Welfare Of His Fellow-men.

The Law Of Sacrifice Is Uniform Throughout The World. To Be Effective It Demands The Sacrifice Of The Bravest And The Most Spotless.

When Restraint And Courtesy Are Added To Strength, The Latter Becomes Irresistible.

I Look Only To The Good Qualities Of Men. Not Being Faultless Myself, I Won't Presume To Probe Into The Faults Of Others.

The Real Ornament Of Woman Is Her Character, Her Purity.

Everyone Who Wills Can Hear The Inner Voice. It Is Within Everyone.

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.

The Essence Of All Religions Is One. Only Their Approaches Are Different.

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.

A Small Body Of Determined Spirits Fired By An Unquenchable Faith In Their Mission Can Alter The Course Of History.

Before The Throne Of The Almighty, Man Will Be Judged Not By His Acts But By His Intentions. For God Alone Reads Our Hearts.

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.

Peace Is Its Own Reward.

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.

Confession Of Errors Is Like A Broom Which Sweeps Away The Dirt And Leaves The Surface Brighter And Clearer. I Feel Stronger For Confession.

As Human Beings, Our Greatness Lies Not So Much In Being Able To Remake The World - That Is The Myth Of The Atomic Age - As In Being Able To Remake Ourselves.

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.