Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, political ethicist, and freedom fighter

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
– Mahatma Gandhi

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
– Mahatma Gandhi

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

The future depends on what we do in the present.
– Mahatma Gandhi

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.
– Mahatma Gandhi

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
– Mahatma Gandhi

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
– Mahatma Gandhi

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems
– Mahatma Gandhi

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
– Mahatma Gandhi

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
– Mahatma Gandhi

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

They cannot take away our self- respect if we do not give it to them.
– Mahatma Gandhi

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

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
– Mahatma Gandhi

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
– Mahatma Gandhi

There is no God higher than truth.
– Mahatma Gandhi

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
– Mahatma Gandhi

There’s enough on this planet for everyone’s needs but not for everyone’s greed.
– Mahatma Gandhi

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
– Mahatma Gandhi

God has no religion.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
– Mahatma Gandhi

A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.
– Mahatma Gandhi

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

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
– Mahatma Gandhi

The roots of violence:
Wealth without work,
Pleasure without conscience,
Knowledge without character,
Commerce without morality,
Science without humanity,
Worship without sacrifice,
Politics without principles.
– Mahatma Gandhi

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.
– Mahatma Gandhi

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

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
– Mahatma Gandhi

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is a weapon of the strong.
– Mahatma Gandhi

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
– Mahatma Gandhi

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

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
– Mahatma Gandhi

You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them
– Mahatma Gandhi

The best way to find yourself
Is to lose yourself in the service of others.
– Mahatma Gandhi

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

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.
– Mahatma Gandhi

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
– Mahatma Gandhi

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
– Mahatma Gandhi

You may never know what results come of your action,
But if you do nothing there will be no result.
– Mahatma Gandhi

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

My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.
– Mahatma Gandhi

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Action expresses priorities.
– Mahatma Gandhi

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.
– Mahatma Gandhi

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
– Mahatma Gandhi

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and mortal persecution
– Mahatma Gandhi

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Poverty is the worst form of violence.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Generosity consists not the sum given,
But the manner in which it is bestowed.
– Mahatma Gandhi

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
– Mahatma Gandhi

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Hate the sin, love the sinner.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.
– Mahatma Gandhi

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
– Mahatma Gandhi

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Not he who has much is rich but he who gives much.
– Mahatma Gandhi

An unjust law is itself a species of violence.
– Mahatma Gandhi

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