Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
-
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
-
The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.
-
This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.
-
Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.
-
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
-
A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.
-
It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.
-
If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.
-
Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.
-
The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
-
I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
-
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
-
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
-
I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
-
Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.
-
I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.
-
Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.
-
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.
-
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
-
Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
-
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
-
Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.
-
I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
-
Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.