Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

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.