Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.
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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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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
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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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That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.
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To lose patience is to lose the battle.
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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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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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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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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.
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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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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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In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
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Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.
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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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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.
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It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.
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Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.
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All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.
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God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.