Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

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

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

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

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

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

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

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

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.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

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

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

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.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

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.