Popular Mahatma Gandhi's Quotes And Sayings

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow

Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for.

Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.

All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action

Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members

Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.

it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.

It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world.

It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.

You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere.

A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. In is that spirit that every one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well.

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.

Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.

Find purpose. The means will follow.

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

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Let your life be your message.

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

God has no religion.

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.

Life is but an endless series of experiments.

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.

Your action expresses your priorities.

Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

Live every day like it is your last and learn everyday like you will live forever

We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.

The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

Love is no love which asks for a return.

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. 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.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

My life is my message.

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

People cannot hurt you without your permission.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.

A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.

Your future depends on what you do today.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

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

I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.

Eye for eye and the world will go blind.

Let us work together for unity and love.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

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.

Selfless action is a source of strength.