Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

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?

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

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.

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.

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