Quotes of Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
2. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live
forever.
3. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an
indomitable will.
4. Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession
of no one race or religion.
5. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
6. God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be
so to every one of us.
7. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are
in harmony.
8. Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is
mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the
ingenuity of man.
9. An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody will see it.
10. Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
11. Abstinence is forgiveness only when there is power to punish; it is
meaningless when it pretends to proceed from a helpless creature.
12. Fasts could not be undertaken out of anger. Anger was a short
madness.
13. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are
in harmony.
14. Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong but of the
weak.
15. Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
16. Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with
love.
17. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is
only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
18. God is, even though the whole world denies him. Truth stands, even if
there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
19. Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to
become makers of your own destiny.
20. My Gita tells me that evil can never result from good action.
21. There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of
all, i.e., the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost
many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family,
from the state to which you may belong, from all that you have held as
dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.
22. Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities.
She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of
man, and she has an equal right of freedom and liberty with him.
23. It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the
one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true
religion. The other is mere business.
24. Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.
25. God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to
bless.
26. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to
them except in the form of bread.
27. A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he
becomes.
28. Live simply that others may simply live.
29. Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
30. The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too,
unconditional assistance. Co-operation which needs consideration is a
commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like
adulterated cement which does not bind.
31. An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good
and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer.
32. Affection cannot be manufactured or regulated by law. If one has no
affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest
expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate,
promote, or incite to violence.
33. The good man is the friend of all living things.
34. There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure
without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without
morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and
politics without principle.
35. Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I
see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel
kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy
without the humblest of us being happy.
36. All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or
songs, are highly beautiful.
37. No cost is too heavy for the preservation of one's honor.
38. An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
39. Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it
often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test
everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it
comes.
40. The future depends on what we do in the present.
41. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of
doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
42. The only devils in this world are those running around in our own
hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.
43. Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your
words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your
habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.
44. They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
45. To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it,
however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the
other.
46. True ahimsa (non – violence) should mean a complete freedom from illwill
and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.
47. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to
them except in the form of bread.
48. The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
49. The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the
way its animals are treated.
50. Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the
enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human
beings themselves.
