Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.
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No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.
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I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.
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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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My conception of freedom is no narrow conception. It is co-extensive with the freedom of man in all his majesty.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.
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If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.
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What the divine author of the Mahabharata said of his great creation is equally true of Hinduism. Whatever of substance is contained in any other religion is always to be found in Hindusim, and what is not contained in it is insubstantial or unnecessary.
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We both may be killed by the Muslims, and must put our purity to the ultimate test, so that we know that we are offering the purest of sacrifices, and we should now both start sleeping naked.
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I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.
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All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.
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Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.
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It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.
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There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.
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Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
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I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
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It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage.
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Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.
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Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
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Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.