Inspirational Quotes by Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Inspirational Quotations by Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948,) called the “Mahatma” (Sanskrit: “great-souled,”) was the apostle of peace and non-violence who said, “My life is my message.” He is the political and spiritual father of modern India. His strategy of passive resistance was based on a philosophical-religious synthesis of traditional Hinduism, Tolstoyan Christianity, and other world religions. His movement mounted pressure on the British to grant India independence.

Born into a family of modest means in Porbandar, Gujarat, Gandhi was educated in British schools and earned a law degree in London. He found his calling in South Africa, where he experimented with nonviolent resistance to fight anti-Indian regulations in South Africa.

Returning to India, Gandhi led a series of nonviolent campaigns as the leader of the Indian crusade for home rule. When Great Britain granted independence in 1947, the partition of India along religious lines led Gandhi to declare his life a failure because India could not govern itself as one nation but instead gave in to the division. Gandhi’s fair-minded treatment of the Muslim cause and his desperate attempts to end intercommunal violence provoked his assassination by a Hindu nationalist just six months after independence.

Gandhi is one of the most-biographed people in the history of the world. Physicist Albert Einstein once said, “Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.”

Gandhi inspired Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi, the 14th Dalai Lama, and other political leaders who resist oppressive regimes. He was also a prolific writer; his most famous work is his autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1940.)

Gandhi is idolized as a modern saint not only for his extraordinary public life as the leader of India’s peaceful struggle for independence but also for his enduring philosophical contributions to humanity.

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Inspirational Quotes by Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

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.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Peace

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won’t help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Activism

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Faith, Religion

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Fear, Coward, Cowardice

Be the change you want to see in the world.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Mentoring, One liners, Purpose, Change, Kindness, Vision

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Truth, Love

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Morality

I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Conscience

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Vision, Prophecy, Truth

Earth and heaven are in us.
—Mohandas K. 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.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Peace, Friendship, Friend, Beauty, Love

To speak or not to speak—when that is the question, silence should take the place of speech.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Goodness

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.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Religion, Friendship, Faith

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Culture, Compassion, Love

Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Religion, Faith

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Zeal, Principles

Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Evil

Those who know how to think need no teachers.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Teaching, Teachers, Living, Thinking, Thought

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment, and increases the capacity for service.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Patience means self-suffering.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Patience

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.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Promises

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Love

The true battlefield is within.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

We must become the change we want to see.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Change

Truth is by nature self-evident, as soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Truth

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Conflict, Faith, Religion, Morality

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Unity

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi