Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The future depends on what you do today.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The future depends on what we do in the present.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Ask the poor. They'll tell you who the christians are.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever I have heard of someone threatening to commit suicide, it has had little or no effect on me.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

~ 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

Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

~ 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

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.This means the when you go to sleep you close your eyes and you are and look like you are dead but then when you wake up it looks like you are reborn because you are up and ready.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

But so long as I lived under a system of Government based on force and voluntarily partook of the many facilities and privileges it created for me, I was bound to help that Government to the extent of my ability when it was engaged in a war, unless I non-co-operated with the Government and renounced to the utmost of my capacity the privileges it offered me.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Truthis like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it

~ Mahatma Gandhi

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and 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.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor...

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

~ Mahatma Gandhi

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi