Inspirational Quotations by Mohandas K Gandhi
- Prayer needs a heart, not a tongue.
- I donot 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.
- Seven Social Sins
Politics without principles
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Worship without sacrifice
- 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 one has no right to coerce others
to act according to his view of truth.
- It is as difficult to make the impossible possible,
as it is easy to make the possible impossible.
- The root cause of most of our misunderstandings lies
in distrust and at the root of this distrust mostly lies fear.
- Fear serves only to accentuate suffering
and makes one's condition pitiable.
- The soul dries up without the company of the good.
- If you want to stand before God,
you must shed your robe of egoism.
- You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- 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.
- Even a single lamp dispels the darkness
- Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe
I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it.
But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability
to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.
- Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will.
- Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
- Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.
Full effort is full victory.
- The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- An eye for an eye makes the whole blind.
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
- There are people in the world so hungry,
that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
- "Hate the sin & not the sinner" is a percept which,
though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced,
and therefore the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
- To speak or not to speak -- when that is the question, silence should take the place of speech.
- All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
- 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 shall 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.
- To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend.
- Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.
- The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.