Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
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I have regarded Jesus of Nazareth as one amongst the mighty teachers that the world has had. . . . I shall say to the Hindus that your lives will be incomplete unless you reverently study the teachings of Jesus.
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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.
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Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.
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Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
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For one man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
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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.
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Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.
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To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
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Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.
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To a pure heart all hearts are pure.
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Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.
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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.
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Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
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He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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For the poor, the economic is spiritual.
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Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
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Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.
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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?
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Everyone holds a piece of the truth.
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In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.