Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Where love is, there God is also.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi