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6/26/11

MAHATMA GANDHI Quotes


"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks: he becomes." ~Mahatma Gandhi

“A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

"A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind." ~Mahatma Gandh

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Action expresses priorities." ~Gandhi

"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation." ~Mahatma Gandhi on Adaptability

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding" ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Be truthful, gentle and fearless." ~Gandhi

"But one thing took deep root in me - the conviction that morality is the basis of things, and that truth is the substance of all morality." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Capital as such is not evil, it is the wrong use that is evil." ~Gandhi

"Constant development is the law of life." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Death for me would be a glorious deliverance rather than that I should be a helpless witness of the destruction of India, Hinduism, Sikhism and Islam" ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Each one takes what one doesn't have." ~Mahatma Gandhi

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

“Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths” ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Put forth enough a clear request, and everything your heart desires must come to you." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Fear has its use but cowardice has none." ~Mahatma Gandhi
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"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." ~Gandhi

"Full effort is full victory." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"I beg you to accept that there is no people on earth who wouldn’t prefer their own bad government to the good government of an alien power.” ~Mahatma Gandhi (to British officials led by the viceroy of India: AFTER THE MASSACRE at Amritsar)

"I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"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 wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm." Mahatma Gandhi

"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war,  we shall have to  begin with the children." ~Mahatma Gandhi 

"If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you" ~Mahatma Gandhi

"In a gentle way you can shake the world." ~Ghandi

"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness." ~Mahatma Gandhi.

"It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver." ~Mahatma Gandhi from BrainyQuote

"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." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny." ~Gandhi

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Live simply, so that others may simply live." ~Mahatma Gandhi

“Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.” ~Mahatma Gandhi 

"Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Peace will not come out of a clash of arms, but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Politics begins with the next person." ~Gandhi

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action." ~Gandhi

"Prayer is not asking. It is the 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." ~Mhstma Gandhi

"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening." ~Mahatma Gandhi

“Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Seven Sins:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Science without humanity.
Knowledge without character.
Politics without principle.
Commerce without morality.
Worship without sacrifice." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Strength does not come from physical capacity, but from the will of the soul." ~Gandhi

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." ~Mahatma Gandhi

“Suffering cheerfully endured ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.” ~Gandhi

"Take to spinning to find peace of mind. The music of the wheel will be as balm to your soul. I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and wool of our life." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed." ~Mahatma Gandhi

 "The future depends on what we do in the present." ~Mahatma Gandhi


"The good man is the friend of all living things." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane." ~Mahatma Gandhi 

"The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still, small voice of conscience." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children" ~Mahatma Gandhi

“The mantra becomes one’s staff of life, and carries one through every ordeal. It is no empty repetition. For each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

"The only devils in the world are those running in our own hearts. That is where the battle should be fought." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"The rose imparts its fragrance, not in many ways but only one. Those who have not the sense of smell will miss it. You cannot feel the fragrance through the tongue or the ear or the skin. So may you not receive spirituality except through the spiritual sense." ~Mahatma Gandhi

“The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

"The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." ~Mahatma Gandhi

“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” ~Mahatma Gandi

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

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

"There is a soul force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Thoughts, words, actions, habits, values and destiny in this lifetime - all emanates from what you believe in this moment." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"To believe in something and not to live it, is dishonest." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"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 the truth." ~Gandhi

"Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another." ~Mahatma Gandhi

“Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it” ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"When I admire the wonder of a sunset, or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of Truth and LOVE have always WON. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall ~ Think of it: always." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Whenever you are in doubt or when the self becomes too much with you, try the following experiment: Recall the face of the poorest and most helpless person you have ever seen and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be for any use to him or to her. Then you will find your doubts and your self melting away.” ~Gandhi


"Where there is love, there is life." ~Mahatma Gandhi 

"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. "~Mahatma Gandhi

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." ~Mahatma Gandhi

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