Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Happiness eludes us if we run after it.
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When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.
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If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.
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It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
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No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.
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Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.
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I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.
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Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.
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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
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Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.
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Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.
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Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.
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I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.
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My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.
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Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.
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War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.
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External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.
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A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.
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Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.
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Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.
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Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.
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Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.
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Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.