Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Where love is, there God is also.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

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.

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

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

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

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

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.