A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mahatma Gandhi
Here are some of the best quotes from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Gandhi is commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi (Sanskrit: mahātmā or “Great Soul”, an honourific first applied to him in South Africa in 1914[) and in India also as Bapu (Gujarati: bāpuː or “Father”). He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and world-wide as the International Day of Non-Violence.
A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi
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 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mahatma Gandhi
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Mahatma Gandhi
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Mahatma Gandhi
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
Mahatma Gandhi
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
Mahatma Gandhi
Action expresses priorities.
Mahatma Gandhi
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mahatma Gandhi
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Mahatma Gandhi
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Mahatma Gandhi
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma Gandhi
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mahatma Gandhi
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
Mahatma Gandhi
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
Mahatma Gandhi
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Mahatma Gandhi
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
Mahatma Gandhi
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
Mahatma Gandhi
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mahatma Gandhi
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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 prays to God according to his own light.
Mahatma Gandhi
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mahatma Gandhi
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Mahatma Gandhi
Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Mahatma Gandhi
