Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.
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Everyone holds a piece of the truth.
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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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That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.
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Each one prays to God according to his own light.
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Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.
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Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
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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.
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I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.
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Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.
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The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.
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If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.
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My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.
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There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.
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Some of my corresponents seem to think that I can work wonders. Let me say as a devotee of truth that I have no such gift. All the power I may have comes from God. But He does not work directly. He works through His numberless agencies. In this case it is the Congress.
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Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.