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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes: 74

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Where there is love there is life.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
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.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
God has no religion.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
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.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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.
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
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.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
The future depends on what you do today.
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, 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.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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.
My life is my message.
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Action expresses priorities.
My Life is My Message
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.
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.
The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
What barrier is there that love cannot break?
The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Live simply so that others may simply live.
There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
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.
The Story of My Experiments With Truth
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.
The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
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.
True beauty lies in purity of the heart.
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Truth resides in every human heart,and one has to search for it there,and to be guided by truth as one sees it.But no one has a right to coerce othersto act according to his own view of truth.
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.
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.
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.
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.
To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.
Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule
Violence begins with the fork.
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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.
In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.
There's no God higher than truth.
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
No hay caminos para la paz; la paz es el camino.
Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.