Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.
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A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
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Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.
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Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
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Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.
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A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.
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My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.
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The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
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In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.
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Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
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The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
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The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.
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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
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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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For me the only training in Swaraj we need is the ability to defend ourselves against the whole world and to live our natural life in perfect freedom, even though it may be full of defects. Good government is no substitute for self-government.
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Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
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Be the change that you want to see.
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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.
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Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.
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That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.
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No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
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A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.