A List of Famous Mahatma Gandhi Quotes By Reference

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

Mahatma Gandhi
2

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Love
3

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

Mahatma Gandhi

Action
4

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jesus Christ
5

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Candor
6

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Mahatma Gandhi

Policy
7

A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

Mahatma Gandhi

Vow
8

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Adaptability
9

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

Mahatma Gandhi

Soul
10

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Mahatma Gandhi

Responsibility
11

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Revenge
12

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Law and Lawyers
13

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Mahatma Gandhi

Anger
14

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

Humankind
15

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Change
16

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Capitalism
17

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Mahatma Gandhi

Service
18

Cowards can never be moral.

Mahatma Gandhi

Coward and Cowardice
19

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Culture
20

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Mahatma Gandhi

Faith
21

Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Mahatma Gandhi

Faith
22

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Mahatma Gandhi

Coward and Cowardice
23

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom
24

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Mahatma Gandhi

Food and Eating
25

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness
26

Hatred can be overcome only by love.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hatred
27

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth
28

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

Mahatma Gandhi

Technology
29

I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

Faith
30

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Mahatma Gandhi

Marriage
31

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inheritance
32

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Power
33

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Mahatma Gandhi

Vision
34

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Violence
35

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Leaders and Leadership
36

If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.

Mahatma Gandhi

Christians and Christianity
37

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Humour
38

If you don't ask, you don't get.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ask
39

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Service
40

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Materialism
41

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Mahatma Gandhi

Indolence
42

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Mahatma Gandhi

Society
43

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Mahatma Gandhi

Tolerance
44

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

Friends and Friendship
45

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Mahatma Gandhi

War and Peace
46

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Quality
47

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

Wisdom
48

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer
49

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace
50

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

Mahatma Gandhi

Occupation
51

Morality is contraband in war.

Mahatma Gandhi

War
52

Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Mahatma Gandhi

Evil
53

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love
54

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Mahatma Gandhi

Culture
55

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Mahatma Gandhi

Goodness and evil
56

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth
57

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be inseparable part of our very being.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence
58

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

Faith
59

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

Mahatma Gandhi

Self control
60

Patience means self-suffering.

Mahatma Gandhi

Patience
61

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

Mahatma Gandhi

Vow
62

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Poverty and The Poor
63

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer
64

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer
65

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer
66

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer
67

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Mahatma Gandhi

Idleness
68

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.

Mahatma Gandhi

Reason
69

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Mahatma Gandhi

Right and Rightness
70

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Mahatma Gandhi

Satisfaction
71

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Will and Will Power
72

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi, Kadiyam Srihari

Service
73

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Control
74

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

Mahatma Gandhi

Potential
75

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Mahatma Gandhi

Friends and Friendship
76

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Country
77

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

Mahatma Gandhi

Self confidence
78

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Mahatma Gandhi

God
79

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

Sacrifice
80

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom
81

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Dictators and Dictatorship
82

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth
83

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness
84

There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.

Mahatma Gandhi

Restraint
85

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life and Living
86

There is no god higher than truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth
87

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

Worry
88

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Self-respect
89

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Mahatma Gandhi

Teachers and Teaching
90

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Conflict
91

To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

Mahatma Gandhi

History and Historians, Hope, Possibilities
92

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mahatma Gandhi

Causes
93

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.

Mahatma Gandhi

Unity
94

We must become the change we want to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

Change
95

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

Mahatma Gandhi

Profits
96

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Action
97

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.

Mahatma Gandhi

Despair
98

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love
99

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth
100

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love

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

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

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

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

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

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

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

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

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

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.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Cowards can never be moral.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

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

Hatred can be overcome only by love.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

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

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

If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.

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

If you don't ask, you don't get.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

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.

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

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

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.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

Morality is contraband in war.

Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be inseparable part of our very being.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

Patience means self-suffering.

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

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

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

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

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

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