Top 3198 Quotes & Sayings by Mahatma Gandhi - Page 2
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Last updated on November 26, 2024.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
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.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
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.
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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.
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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.
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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.
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.
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
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.
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.
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Self-respect knows no considerations.
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.
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
My life is my message.
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.
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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