Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
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The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
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No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.
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If you`d be loved, be worthy to be love.
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering.
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My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.