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)

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Mistakes, Freedom

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Living

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make not only for our own happiness but that of the world at large.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Service, Happiness

My effort should never be to undermine another’s faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Religion, Faith

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Truth

The soul dries up without the company of the good.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

My service to my people is part of the discipline to which I subject myself in order to free my soul from the bonds of the flesh… For me the path of salvation leads through the unceasing tribulation in the service of my fellow countrymen and humanity.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

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

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

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

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

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.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be inseparable part of our very being.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Gentleness, Violence

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it, when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it, even if I did not have the ability in the beginning.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Doing Your Best, Belief, Faith

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.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Christianity, Religion

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.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Humanity

Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one’s faith is, the more it whet’s one’s reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Faith

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, “God is, was and ever shall be.”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Faith, Challenges

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Conscience

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

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Violence, Peace

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Relaxation, Sin, Speed, Stress, Life

For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

The only devils here are the devils that are in our hearts.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

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

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
—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

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

Always believe in your dreams, because if you don’t, you’ll still have hope.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

In judging myself I shall try to be as harsh as truth, as I want others also to be.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

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

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

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.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Humanity

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

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

As in law so in war, the longest purse finally wins.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi