Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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If you`d be loved, be worthy to be love.
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My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.
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What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.
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Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.
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The good man is the friend of all living things.
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By its very nature, non-violence cannot ‘seize’ power, nor can that be its goal. But non-violence can do more; it can effectively control and guide power without capturing the machinery of government. That is its beauty.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
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Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
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All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
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It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
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Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued. As soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst forth upon the world with a brilliance perhaps never known before.
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A society organized and run on the basis of complete nonviolence would be the purest anarchy… That State is perfect and non-violent where the people are governed the least.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.