Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

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

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

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

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

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

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.

For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

There is no path to peace; peace is the path.

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence

In the midst of darkness, light persists.

A perfect mind comes from a perfect heart, not the heart known by a doctor's stethoscope but the heart which is the seat of God.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

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

My life is my message.

Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

See the good in people and help them.

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.

Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.

Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.

If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

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

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

God has no religion.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.

Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.

The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.