Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.
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The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.
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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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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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Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.
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The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.
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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.
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To a pure heart all hearts are pure.
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
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We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
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In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.
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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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Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.
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Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.
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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
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The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.
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I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.
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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.
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If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.
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If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.
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If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.
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It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
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Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.