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1. 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.
- Mahatma Gandhi
2. Good government is no substitute for self-government.
- Mahatma Gandhi
3. There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
- Mahatma Gandhi
4. Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
- Mahatma Gandhi
5. Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.
- Mahatma Gandhi
6. I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.
- Mahatma Gandhi
7. Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.
- Mahatma Gandhi
8. The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts – that is where the battle should be fought.
- Mahatma Gandhi
9. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God’s attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
- Mahatma Gandhi
10. One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.
- Mahatma Gandhi
11. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
- Mahatma Gandhi
12. Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
- Mahatma Gandhi
13. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
- Mahatma Gandhi
14. Education without courage is like a wax statue – beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.
- Mahatma Gandhi
15. A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.
- Mahatma Gandhi
16. I am a proud staunch Sanatani Hindu.
- Mahatma Gandhi
17. The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
- Mahatma Gandhi
18. Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.
- Mahatma Gandhi
19. In the midst of darkness, light persists.
- Mahatma Gandhi
20. Selfless action is a source of strength.
- Mahatma Gandhi
21. Nothing is impossible for pure love.
- Mahatma Gandhi
22. First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi
23. 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.
- Mahatma Gandhi
24. Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.
- Mahatma Gandhi
25. I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
26. Means are ends in the making.
- Mahatma Gandhi
27. A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
- Mahatma Gandhi
28. I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.
- Mahatma Gandhi
29. God alone knows absolute Truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi
30. I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
- Mahatma Gandhi
31. The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
- Mahatma Gandhi
32. Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.
- Mahatma Gandhi
33. If you don’t ask, you don’t get it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
34. Take care of this moment.
- Mahatma Gandhi
35. Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.
- Mahatma Gandhi
36. A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.
- Mahatma Gandhi
37. Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
- Mahatma Gandhi
38. Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
- Mahatma Gandhi
39. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mahatma Gandhi
40. Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
- Mahatma Gandhi
41. That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.
- Mahatma Gandhi
42. Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.
- Mahatma Gandhi
43. 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.
- Mahatma Gandhi
44. Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.
- Mahatma Gandhi
45. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.
- Mahatma Gandhi
46. You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.
- Mahatma Gandhi
47. Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.
- Mahatma Gandhi
48. In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.
- Mahatma Gandhi
49. When the ego dies, the soul awakes.
- Mahatma Gandhi
50. There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.
- Mahatma Gandhi
51. The wind of God’s grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.
- Mahatma Gandhi
52. Be the change you’re trying to create.
- Mahatma Gandhi
53. Labour is priceless, not gold.
- Mahatma Gandhi
54. Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.
- Mahatma Gandhi
55. Find purpose. The means will follow.
- Mahatma Gandhi
56. When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.
- Mahatma Gandhi
57. Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
58. Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.
- Mahatma Gandhi
59. My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.
- Mahatma Gandhi
60. In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
- Mahatma Gandhi
61. Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.
- Mahatma Gandhi
62. Live simply so that others may simply live.
- Mahatma Gandhi
63. No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.
- Mahatma Gandhi
64. Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
65. Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
- Mahatma Gandhi
66. There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mahatma Gandhi
67. With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.
- Mahatma Gandhi
68. True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.
- Mahatma Gandhi
69. It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.
- Mahatma Gandhi
70. Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mahatma Gandhi
71. You can’t shake hands with a closed fist.
- Mahatma Gandhi
72. I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
- Mahatma Gandhi
73. Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.
- Mahatma Gandhi
74. One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.
- Mahatma Gandhi
75. Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.
- Mahatma Gandhi
76. Learn as if you will live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi
77. The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man’s Swaraj.
- Mahatma Gandhi
78. If you do what you enjoy doing you’ll never have to work hard.
- Mahatma Gandhi
79. 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
80. Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.
- Mahatma Gandhi
81. Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
- Mahatma Gandhi
82. A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
- Mahatma Gandhi
83. The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
- Mahatma Gandhi
84. Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
85. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mahatma Gandhi
86. A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.
- Mahatma Gandhi
87. Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mahatma Gandhi
88. Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion.
- Mahatma Gandhi
89. A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.
- Mahatma Gandhi
90. In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.
- Mahatma Gandhi
91. Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
- Mahatma Gandhi
92. The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
- Mahatma Gandhi
93. Continue to grow and evolve.
- Mahatma Gandhi
94. Truth is one, paths are many.
- Mahatma Gandhi
95. Hate the sin, love the sinner.
- Mahatma Gandhi
96. Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
97. You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
- Mahatma Gandhi
98. Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.
- Mahatma Gandhi
99. If you worry about yesterday’s failures, then today’s successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.
- Mahatma Gandhi
100. A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
- Mahatma Gandhi
101. Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.
- Mahatma Gandhi
102. Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.
- Mahatma Gandhi
103. Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.
- Mahatma Gandhi
104. It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom.
- Mahatma Gandhi
105. Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi
106. If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
107. Never make a promise in haste.
- Mahatma Gandhi
108. Make injustice visible.
- Mahatma Gandhi
109. The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.
- Mahatma Gandhi
110. The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.
- Mahatma Gandhi
111. Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mahatma Gandhi
112. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.
- Mahatma Gandhi
113. The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
114. Adversity is the mother of progress.
- Mahatma Gandhi
115. Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
- Mahatma Gandhi
116. What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mahatma Gandhi
117. What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
- Mahatma Gandhi
118. Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle and a victory.
- Mahatma Gandhi
119. It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.
- Mahatma Gandhi
120. Ahimsa is the strongest force known.
- Mahatma Gandhi
121. Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.
- Mahatma Gandhi
122. I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
- Mahatma Gandhi
123. 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
124. It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.
- Mahatma Gandhi
125. A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the ‘do or die’ slogan.
- Mahatma Gandhi
126. There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.
- Mahatma Gandhi
127. See the good in people and help them.
- Mahatma Gandhi
128. Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
- Mahatma Gandhi
129. Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
- Mahatma Gandhi
130. Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.
- Mahatma Gandhi
131. Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.
- Mahatma Gandhi
132. An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
133. Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.
- Mahatma Gandhi
134. Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
- Mahatma Gandhi
135. There are Seven Deadly Social Sins: Politics without principle. Wealth without work. Commerce without morality. Pleasure without conscience. Education without character. Science without humility. Worship without sacrifice.
- Mahatma Gandhi
136. Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.
- Mahatma Gandhi
137. A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.
- Mahatma Gandhi
138. Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
- Mahatma Gandhi
139. To a pure heart all hearts are pure.
- Mahatma Gandhi
140. The sole aim of journalism should be service.
- Mahatma Gandhi
141. When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.
- Mahatma Gandhi
142. In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
- Mahatma Gandhi
143. Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.
- Mahatma Gandhi
144. Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.
- Mahatma Gandhi
145. There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.
- Mahatma Gandhi
146. Where love is, there God is also.
- Mahatma Gandhi
147. The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
- Mahatma Gandhi
148. The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.
- Mahatma Gandhi
149. If you’re going to be a bear, be a grizzly.
- Mahatma Gandhi
150. Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.
- Mahatma Gandhi
151. I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.
- Mahatma Gandhi
152. 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.
- Mahatma Gandhi
153. God speaks to us every day only we don’t know how to listen.
- Mahatma Gandhi
154. In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.
- Mahatma Gandhi
155. God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
- Mahatma Gandhi
156. Peace is its own reward.
- Mahatma Gandhi
157. Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.
- Mahatma Gandhi
158. They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
- Mahatma Gandhi
159. My life is my message.
- Mahatma Gandhi
160. Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
- Mahatma Gandhi
161. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
- Mahatma Gandhi
162. Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.
- Mahatma Gandhi
163. Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mahatma Gandhi
164. A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.
- Mahatma Gandhi
165. All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action.
- Mahatma Gandhi
166. 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.
- Mahatma Gandhi
167. The best politics is right action.
- Mahatma Gandhi
168. I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.
- Mahatma Gandhi
169. If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, ‘O yes, I am a Christian.’
- Mahatma Gandhi
170. I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.
- Mahatma Gandhi
171. If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.
- Mahatma Gandhi
172. The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.
- Mahatma Gandhi
173. To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
- Mahatma Gandhi
174. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
- Mahatma Gandhi
175. Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
- Mahatma Gandhi
176. Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.
- Mahatma Gandhi
177. It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
178. Be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
179. Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
- Mahatma Gandhi
180. With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.
- Mahatma Gandhi
181. Simplicity is the essence of universality.
- Mahatma Gandhi
182. Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.
- Mahatma Gandhi
183. I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.
- Mahatma Gandhi
184. The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.
- Mahatma Gandhi
185. 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.
- Mahatma Gandhi
186. Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.
- Mahatma Gandhi
187. Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.
- Mahatma Gandhi
188. 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
189. Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.
- Mahatma Gandhi
190. Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.
- Mahatma Gandhi
191. Full effort is full victory.
- Mahatma Gandhi
192. They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.
- Mahatma Gandhi
193. Purity of life is the highest and truest art.
- Mahatma Gandhi
194. All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
- Mahatma Gandhi
195. Real beauty is my aim.
- Mahatma Gandhi
196. Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized – the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.
- Mahatma Gandhi
197. There is no road towards peace; peace is the road.
- Mahatma Gandhi
198. The true source of rights is duty.
- Mahatma Gandhi
199. The measure of a country’s greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.
- Mahatma Gandhi
200. Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.
- Mahatma Gandhi
201. It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.
- Mahatma Gandhi
202. There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
- Mahatma Gandhi
203. Live every day like it is your last and learn everyday like you will live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi
204. Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.
- Mahatma Gandhi
205. I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.
- Mahatma Gandhi
206. The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.
- Mahatma Gandhi
207. Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.
- Mahatma Gandhi
208. Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.
- Mahatma Gandhi
209. There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man.
- Mahatma Gandhi
210. The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.
- Mahatma Gandhi
211. Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don’t go together any more that water and fire.
- Mahatma Gandhi
212. I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
- Mahatma Gandhi
213. What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.
- Mahatma Gandhi
214. Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
- Mahatma Gandhi
215. Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.
- Mahatma Gandhi
216. When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
- Mahatma Gandhi
217. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Mahatma Gandhi
218. True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.
- Mahatma Gandhi
219. The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.
- Mahatma Gandhi
220. Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.
- Mahatma Gandhi
221. There is no ‘way to peace,’ there is only ’peace.
- Mahatma Gandhi
222. The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.
- Mahatma Gandhi
223. The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.
- Mahatma Gandhi
224. God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.
- Mahatma Gandhi
225. I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.
- Mahatma Gandhi
226. Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.
- Mahatma Gandhi
227. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi
228. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
- Mahatma Gandhi
229. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
- Mahatma Gandhi
230. Where there is love there is life.
- Mahatma Gandhi
231. Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.
- Mahatma Gandhi
232. The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
- Mahatma Gandhi
233. Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
- Mahatma Gandhi
234. The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.
- Mahatma Gandhi
235. Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.
- Mahatma Gandhi
236. My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.
- Mahatma Gandhi
237. The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.
- Mahatma Gandhi
238. We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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239. Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
240. Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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241. When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.
- Mahatma Gandhi
242. Meditation is waiting on God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
243. Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
- Mahatma Gandhi
244. A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
245. The path is the goal.
- Mahatma Gandhi
246. The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.
- Mahatma Gandhi
247. Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.
- Mahatma Gandhi
248. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.
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249. We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.
- Mahatma Gandhi
250. Patience means self-suffering.
- Mahatma Gandhi
251. Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
252. I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
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253. If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.
- Mahatma Gandhi
254. The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
- Mahatma Gandhi
255. Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation – these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.
- Mahatma Gandhi
256. Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.
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257. It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?
- Mahatma Gandhi
258. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
- Mahatma Gandhi
259. Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.
- Mahatma Gandhi
260. Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.
- Mahatma Gandhi
261. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
- Mahatma Gandhi
262. If you want to change the world, start with yourself.
- Mahatma Gandhi
263. When I despair, I remember that all through history the way 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
264. Life is but an endless series of experiments.
- Mahatma Gandhi
265. The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.
- Mahatma Gandhi
266. Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
- Mahatma Gandhi
267. May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.
- Mahatma Gandhi
268. Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
- Mahatma Gandhi
269. Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India’s just cause.
- Mahatma Gandhi
270. In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
271. Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.
- Mahatma Gandhi
272. It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
- Mahatma Gandhi
273. It is beneath human dignity to lose one’s individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
- Mahatma Gandhi
274. A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.
- Mahatma Gandhi
275. A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.
- Mahatma Gandhi
276. Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.
- Mahatma Gandhi
277. Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.
- Mahatma Gandhi
278. Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live.
- Mahatma Gandhi
279. I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
280. Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
- Mahatma Gandhi
281. For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity.
- Mahatma Gandhi
282. When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
- Mahatma Gandhi
283. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi
284. Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.
- Mahatma Gandhi
285. There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
- Mahatma Gandhi
286. Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.
- Mahatma Gandhi
287. I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings.
- Mahatma Gandhi
288. Without action, you aren’t going anywhere.
- Mahatma Gandhi
289. To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.
- Mahatma Gandhi
290. The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.
- Mahatma Gandhi
291. Literacy in itself is no education.
- Mahatma Gandhi
292. Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
- Mahatma Gandhi
293. Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.
- Mahatma Gandhi
294. Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.
- Mahatma Gandhi
295. Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
296. To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
- Mahatma Gandhi
297. If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mahatma Gandhi
298. Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.
- Mahatma Gandhi
299. It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.
- Mahatma Gandhi
300. The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
301. Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mahatma Gandhi
302. As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
303. There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.
- Mahatma Gandhi
304. There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.
- Mahatma Gandhi
305. God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.
- Mahatma Gandhi
306. Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.
- Mahatma Gandhi
307. My commitment is to truth not consistency.
- Mahatma Gandhi
308. God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great.
- Mahatma Gandhi
309. Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.
- Mahatma Gandhi
310. Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.
- Mahatma Gandhi
311. The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.
- Mahatma Gandhi
312. An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
313. Life is one indivisible whole.
- Mahatma Gandhi
314. Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.
- Mahatma Gandhi
315. The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.
- Mahatma Gandhi
316. Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.
- Mahatma Gandhi
317. Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, 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.
- Mahatma Gandhi
318. Hatred can be overcome only by love.
- Mahatma Gandhi
319. Mass illiteracy is India’s sin and shame and must be liquidated.
- Mahatma Gandhi
320. The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.
- Mahatma Gandhi
321. Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
- Mahatma Gandhi
322. If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be.
- Mahatma Gandhi
323. True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.
- Mahatma Gandhi
324. Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.
- Mahatma Gandhi
325. I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
- Mahatma Gandhi
326. Think for tomorrow but act for today.
- Mahatma Gandhi
327. What barrier is there that love cannot break?
- Mahatma Gandhi
328. Self-respect knows no considerations.
- Mahatma Gandhi
329. One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
- Mahatma Gandhi
330. 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
331. If you give me rice, I’ll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I’ll eat every day.
- Mahatma Gandhi
332. Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.
- Mahatma Gandhi
333. Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
334. You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
- Mahatma Gandhi
335. Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.
- Mahatma Gandhi
336. Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.
- Mahatma Gandhi
337. The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction.
- Mahatma Gandhi
338. Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
- Mahatma Gandhi
339. Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace.
- Mahatma Gandhi
340. Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.
- Mahatma Gandhi
341. A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mahatma Gandhi
342. Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.
- Mahatma Gandhi
343. In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.
- Mahatma Gandhi
344. It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
- Mahatma Gandhi
345. There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
- Mahatma Gandhi
346. 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.
- Mahatma Gandhi
347. Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.
- Mahatma Gandhi
348. No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mahatma Gandhi
349. It is the law of love that rules mankind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
350. A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
- Mahatma Gandhi
351. It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
- Mahatma Gandhi
352. The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.
- Mahatma Gandhi
353. Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.
- Mahatma Gandhi
354. True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
355. When I don’t understand something, I reach up and hold God’s hand. And we walk together in silence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
356. The future of India lies in its villages.
- Mahatma Gandhi
357. Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.
- Mahatma Gandhi
358. You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.
- Mahatma Gandhi
359. Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
360. He who does not see God in the next person he meets need look no further.
- Mahatma Gandhi
361. It’s not too late at all. You just don’t yet know what you are capable of.
- Mahatma Gandhi
362. My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.
- Mahatma Gandhi
363. Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.
- Mahatma Gandhi
364. If untouchability lives, humanity must die.
- Mahatma Gandhi
365. The law of love knows no bounds of space or time.
- Mahatma Gandhi
366. Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.
- Mahatma Gandhi
367. To a man with an empty stomach food is God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
368. Sanitation is more important than Independence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
369. Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together.
- Mahatma Gandhi
370. The future depends on what you do today.
- Mahatma Gandhi
371. There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.
- Mahatma Gandhi
372. India’s way is not Europe’s. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
- Mahatma Gandhi
373. Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mahatma Gandhi
374. Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.
- Mahatma Gandhi
375. The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life’s activities.
- Mahatma Gandhi
376. 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.
- Mahatma Gandhi
377. Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
- Mahatma Gandhi
378. 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
379. Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical.
- Mahatma Gandhi
380. There’s no God higher than truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi
381. A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.
- Mahatma Gandhi
382. Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.
- Mahatma Gandhi
383. Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.
- Mahatma Gandhi
384. Let us work together for unity and love.
- Mahatma Gandhi
385. Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
- Mahatma Gandhi
386. My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.
- Mahatma Gandhi
387. A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.
- Mahatma Gandhi
388. Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.
- Mahatma Gandhi
389. The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.
- Mahatma Gandhi
390. I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.
- Mahatma Gandhi
391. The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.
- Mahatma Gandhi
392. Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
- Mahatma Gandhi
393. What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
- Mahatma Gandhi
394. The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.
- Mahatma Gandhi
395. The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mahatma Gandhi
396. I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity.
- Mahatma Gandhi
397. Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
398. Change yourself – you are in control.
- Mahatma Gandhi
399. Journalism has become the art of “intelligent anticipation of events.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
400. I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mahatma Gandhi
401. My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India’s rise so that the whole world may benefit.
- Mahatma Gandhi
402. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.
- Mahatma Gandhi
403. 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
404. Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.
- Mahatma Gandhi
405. The voice of the people may be said to be God’s voice, the voice of the Panchayat.
- Mahatma Gandhi
406. Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
- Mahatma Gandhi
407. I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.
- Mahatma Gandhi
408. There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
409. To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.
- Mahatma Gandhi
410. I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.
- Mahatma Gandhi
411. Truth triumphs, even if there be no public support.
- Mahatma Gandhi
412. The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
- Mahatma Gandhi
413. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi
414. When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
- Mahatma Gandhi
415. Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
416. Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
- Mahatma Gandhi
417. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Mahatma Gandhi
418. Concentrate on your task.
- Mahatma Gandhi
419. My religion teaches me to love all equally.
- Mahatma Gandhi
420. True beauty lies in purity of the heart.
- Mahatma Gandhi
421. Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
422. You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.
- Mahatma Gandhi
423. The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
- Mahatma Gandhi
424. There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone’s greed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
425. Always believe in your dreams, because if you don’t, you’ll still have hope.
- Mahatma Gandhi
426. Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.
- Mahatma Gandhi
427. Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
- Mahatma Gandhi
428. When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
429. The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
- Mahatma Gandhi
430. What better book can there be than the book of humanity.
- Mahatma Gandhi
431. Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
- Mahatma Gandhi
432. A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.
- Mahatma Gandhi
433. True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.
- Mahatma Gandhi
434. Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.
- Mahatma Gandhi
435. Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
- Mahatma Gandhi
436. A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.
- Mahatma Gandhi
437. To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
438. The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mahatma Gandhi
439. Action expresses priorities.
- Mahatma Gandhi
440. Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
441. Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.
- Mahatma Gandhi
442. 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.
- Mahatma Gandhi
443. Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
- Mahatma Gandhi
444. Love is the humblest yet the most powerful force that the human being has.
- Mahatma Gandhi
445. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
- Mahatma Gandhi
446. The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.
- Mahatma Gandhi
447. I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.
- Mahatma Gandhi
448. I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
- Mahatma Gandhi
449. The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
- Mahatma Gandhi
450. I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.
- Mahatma Gandhi
451. 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
452. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi
453. Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mahatma Gandhi
454. I am a Christian and a Hindu and a Muslim and a Jew.
- Mahatma Gandhi
455. Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
- Mahatma Gandhi
456. 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.
- Mahatma Gandhi
457. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.
- Mahatma Gandhi
458. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
459. The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.
- Mahatma Gandhi
460. Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
461. Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mahatma Gandhi
462. A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
- Mahatma Gandhi
463. Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
- Mahatma Gandhi
464. It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mahatma Gandhi
465. Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
- Mahatma Gandhi
466. If we are to reach real peace in the world, we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mahatma Gandhi
467. In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
- Mahatma Gandhi
468. There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.
- Mahatma Gandhi
469. My greatest weapon is mute prayer.
- Mahatma Gandhi
470. By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.
- Mahatma Gandhi
471. Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.
- Mahatma Gandhi
472. Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
- Mahatma Gandhi
473. My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.
- Mahatma Gandhi
474. Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.
- Mahatma Gandhi
475. Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue.
- Mahatma Gandhi
476. It does not require money, to live neat, clean and dignified...
- Mahatma Gandhi
477. 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 than the one derived from fear of punishment.
- Mahatma Gandhi
478. Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
479. What is faith if it is not translated into action?
- Mahatma Gandhi
480. The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mahatma Gandhi
481. You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
482. We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.
- Mahatma Gandhi
483. There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.
- Mahatma Gandhi
484. I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
- Mahatma Gandhi
485. God has no religion.
- Mahatma Gandhi
486. You can judge a society by the way it treats it’s animals.
- Mahatma Gandhi
487. Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
- Mahatma Gandhi
488. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mahatma Gandhi
489. There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.
- Mahatma Gandhi
490. Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.
- Mahatma Gandhi
491. Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
- Mahatma Gandhi
492. 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.
- Mahatma Gandhi
493. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
494. To lose patience is to lose the battle.
- Mahatma Gandhi
495. You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.
- Mahatma Gandhi
496. I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
497. Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.
- Mahatma Gandhi
498. Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
- Mahatma Gandhi
499. The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mahatma Gandhi
500. No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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