Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
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The weak can never forgive.
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True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.
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One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.
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Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.
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India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.
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See the good in people and help them.
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Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
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An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.
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It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
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Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.
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Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.
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What is faith if it is not translated into action?
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Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.
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The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.
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Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.
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I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.
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I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.
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The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.
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The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.
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In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.
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Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.
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God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.
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I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.