Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

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

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

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

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.