Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

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.

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

Be the change you are trying to create.

Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet.

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

Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

Find purpose. The means will follow.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

Be the change you want to see.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

The future of India lies in its villages

You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

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

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

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

The future depends on what we do in the present.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live

The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

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

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.