| Name | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | ||
| Born | 2 October 1869 Porbandar, Gujarat, India | ||
| Died | 30 January 1948 (aged 78) New Delhi, India | ||
| Nationality | Indian | ||
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- The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
- Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.
- I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.
- Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not even one man’s greed.
- To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- First they ignore you, then laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
- Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
- Be the change you want to see in the world.
- A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.
- Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
- The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.
- Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
- I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
- God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.
- Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
- Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
- Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.
- As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
- Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!
- I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
- A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
- In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
- It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends but to befriend one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.
- To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.
- Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.
- Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.
- The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.
- You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
- 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.
- You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
- Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- It is unwise to be too sure of ones own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
- Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.
- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Have faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the whole ocean doesn’t become dirty.
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
- To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
- I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.
- The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.
- Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
- One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
- Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
- A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
- 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.
- Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed, always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
- A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
- A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
- Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!
- Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others.
- Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.
- Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
- It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business
- If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
- The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
- When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.
- The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.
- We have to handover the earth, the air, the land and the water to the children at least as it was handed over to us.
- As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
- I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
- Love is the strongest force the world possesses, yet it is the humblest imaginable.
- I believe that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without prayer.
- It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- 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.
- God has given me no control over the following moment. I am concerned about taking care of the present.
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
- Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
- Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
- Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
- Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.
- Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.
- Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
- Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.
- To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one’s moral and intellectual bankruptcy and it can only start a viscous cycle.
- What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the “Voice within” tells you.
- One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
