Top 3198 Quotes & Sayings by Mahatma Gandhi - Page 5

A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present

To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.

Your future depends on what you do today.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

Make injustice visible.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

Be the change you are trying to create.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

To see farther, you must climb higher.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

People cannot hurt you without your permission.

Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

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

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

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.

God has no religion.

Find purpose. The means will follow.

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Live every day like it is your last and learn everyday like you will live forever

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

We must be the world we want to create.

Think for tomorrow but act for today.

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

We may attack systems. We must not attack men.

If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.

There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.

There is no path to peace; peace is the path.

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

Adversity is the mother of progress.

Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.

President means chief servant

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

Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory

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

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.