Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

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

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.

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

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

Morality is contraband in war.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

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.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

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.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

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

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

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

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Action expresses priorities.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

My life is my message.

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.