Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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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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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 believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
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My ambition is much higher than independence. Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the Earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.
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To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness.
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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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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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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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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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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 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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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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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
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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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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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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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If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.
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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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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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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.