Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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.
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The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
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To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.
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Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.
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All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.
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The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.
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Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.
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There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.
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It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
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My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.
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No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.
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Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
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To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
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If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.
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My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.
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Social service that savours of patronage is not service.
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On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.
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With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.
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The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.
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A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.
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Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
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If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.
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The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.
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The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.