Top 3198 Quotes & Sayings by Mahatma Gandhi - Page 6

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.

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

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

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

If you do nothing there will be no results

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

The future depends on what we do in the present.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

In the midst of darkness, light persists.

You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.

Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

Eye for eye and the world will go blind.

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

Life is but an endless series of experiments.

It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.

Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, 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.

Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace

What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. When there is honest effort, it will be realised that what appears to be different truths are like apparently different countless leaves of the same tree.

Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.

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

True beauty consists of purity of heart.

The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers.

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

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.

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Both heaven and hell are within us.

My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.