Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

1. You Must Not Lose Faith in Humanity, Humanity is an Ocean; If a few Drops of The Ocean are Dirty, The Ocean does not became Dirty.
2. Honesty Disagreement if often a Good Sign of Progress.
3. An Unjust Law is itself a Species of Violence, Arrest for its Breach is more so.
4. Where there is love there is life.
5. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
6. It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
7. 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.
8. A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
9. Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. 
10. Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
11. The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
12. Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
13. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
14. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
15. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
16. There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.
17. Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
18. 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.
19. I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
20. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
21. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
22. A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
23. An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
24. Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
25. Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
26. Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
27. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
28. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
29. You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
30. Poverty is the worst form of violence.
31. If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
32. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
33. It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
34. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
35. Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
36. Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
37. Action expresses priorities.
38. To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
39. Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
40. Each one prays to God according to his own light.
41. Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
42. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
43. Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
44. The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
45. All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
46. If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
47. Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
48. A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
49. I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
50. God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
51. In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
52. 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.
53. God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
54. 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.
55. I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
56. My life is my message.
57. The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
58. There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
59. 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.
60. 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.
61. 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.
62. In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
63. It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
64. When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
65. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
66. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
67. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
68. Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
69. 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.
70. Live as if you were to die tomorrow, Learn as if you were to live forever.
71. A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
72. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
73. Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
74. What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
75. Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
76. A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
77. The good man is the friend of all living things.
78. Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
79. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
80. Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
81. To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
82. Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
83. Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
84. Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
85. The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
86. A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
87. Each one prays to God according to his own light.
88. All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
89. If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
90. I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
91. God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
92. In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
93. 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.
94. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
95. 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.
96. God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
97. 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.
98. I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
99. 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.
100. Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
101. Faith must be enforced by reason when faith becomes blind it dies.
102. Those who know how to think need no teachers.
103. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
104. Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
105. Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
106. Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
107. My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing him.
108. Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to Err.
109. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
110. The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
111. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
112. Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
113. Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
114. The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
115. A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
116. 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.
117. 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.
118. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
119. The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
120. I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
121. An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
122. Where love is, there God is also.
123. There is more to life than increasing its speed.
124. We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
125. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
126. One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
127. Truth never damages a cause that is just.
128. Self-respect knows no considerations.
129. Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
130. But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
131. Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
132. The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
133. Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
134. I have worshiped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
135. Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
136. Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
137. In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
138. It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
139. Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
140. What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
141. Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
142. Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
143. Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
144. Peace is its own reward.
145. The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.