Mohandas Gandhi – Shown all that the smallest among us can effect change against the greatest of odds, giving hope that the meek shall indeed inherint the earth.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Mohandas Gandhi
A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mohandas Gandhi
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mohandas Gandhi
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mohandas Gandhi
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Mohandas Gandhi
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mohandas Gandhi
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mohandas Gandhi
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Mohandas Gandhi
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.
Mohandas Gandhi
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
Mohandas Gandhi
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Mohandas Gandhi
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Mohandas Gandhi
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Mohandas Gandhi
When Truth is your guide,first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mohandas Gandhi
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mohandas Gandhi
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.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.
Mohandas Gandhi
Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.
Mohandas Gandhi
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.
Mohandas Gandhi
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body. It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mohandas Gandhi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mohandas Gandhi
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mohandas Gandhi
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mohandas Gandhi
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Mohandas 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 then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mohandas Gandhi
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mohandas Gandhi
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
Mohandas Gandhi
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. .
Mohandas Gandhi
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mohandas Gandhi
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mohandas Gandhi