Mahatma Gandhi


Mahatma Gandhi


Mahatma Gandhi



Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts, and everything will be well.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

I want freedom for the full expression on my personality.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

I think it would be a good idea.
(When asked what he thought of Western civilization)

We must become the change we want to see.

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.

There is more to life than increasing its speed

A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

Where there is love there is life.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty, it is it's own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

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.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

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.

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

I wanted to know the best of the life of one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind.... I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. When I closed the second volume (of the Prophet's biography), I was sorry there was not more for me to read of that great life.