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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)

Think of the poorest person you have ever seen and ask if your next act will be of any use to him.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

One golden rule is to accept the interpretation honestly put on the pledge by the party administering it.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

A country that is governed by even its national army can never be morally free.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

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

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation, and a wicked deed disapprobation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Peace, Gentleness

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

Man becomes what he eats. The grosser the food the grosser the body.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Confrontation, Forgiveness, Kindness

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Happiness, Harmony, Living, Feelings

It may be long before the law of love will be recognized in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

The true battlefield is within.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Seven Social Sins
Politics without principles
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Worship without sacrifice.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Conscience

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Gentleness

I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Tolerance

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Love, Freedom

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Capitalism

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Faith

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Violence, Defeat

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Service

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Potential, Action, Learning

Yoga is love. It is nonviolence at the extreme edge.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Truth

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 then the one derived from fear of punishment.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Love, Equality, Compassion, Power

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Business

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Forgiveness, Confrontation, Peace

Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Faith

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Anger

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Strength

Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works, whether we accept it or not. The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Non-violence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to another law—to the strength of the spirit.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

However much I may sympathize with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Compassion, Love

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.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Attitude, Faith, Belief, Confidence, Believe

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Living

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Sacrifice

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Truth, Conscience

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