Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Morality is contraband in war.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

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

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

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

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Where there is love there is life.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.