Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
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Democracy and violence can ill go together.
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Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.
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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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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
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True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.
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Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.
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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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In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.
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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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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'