Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes 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)

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Gentleness, Eyes, Miscellaneous, Revenge

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Reason, Truth

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Humankind, Action, Living, Will, Conviction

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Action

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Peace, War

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

It is as difficult to make the impossible possible, as it is easy to make the possible impossible.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

The root cause of most of our misunderstandings lies in distrust and at the root of this distrust mostly lies fear.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Power

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Peace

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Weapon

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Technology, Science

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Confidence, Leadership, History, Self Confidence

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Soul, Weakness, Compassion, Confrontation, Forgiveness, Love

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.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

Service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Helpfulness, Service

To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one’s faith in man and God, even one’s own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Customers

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Media, Equality, News

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Change

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.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.
Mohandas K. 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.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Peace

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Promises

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving dear ones unprotected. Between violence and cowardly flight, I can only prefer violence to cowardice. I can no more preach nonviolence to a coward than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Compassion

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

Non-violence is the article of faith.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Faith

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

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Humankind, Action

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