Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.
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It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.
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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
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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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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.
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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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Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.
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The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.
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Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
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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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Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.
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Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.
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Cowards can never be moral.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.
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As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist.
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Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.
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The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.