Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is love there is life.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Action expresses priorities.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Violence begins with the fork.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it. 1924-1926)

~ Mahatma Gandhi

There's no God higher than truth.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

God has no religion.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ 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

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

~ Mahatma Gandhi