Inspirational Quotations

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

Mohandas Karamchand Gāndhī (1869–1948,) called the “Mahātma” (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, Gāndhī 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, Gāndhī 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 Gāndhī to declare his life a failure because India could not govern itself as one nation but instead gave in to the division. Gāndhī’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.

Gāndhī 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.”

Gāndhī 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.)

Gāndhī 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)

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Humanity, Goodness

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

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

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

To give one’s heart is to give all.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Give, Heart

Nothing is impossible for pure love.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Love

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

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

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

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

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: War, Peace

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Honesty, Progress

It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Poor, Love, God, History

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

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Control

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

Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be
suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Gentleness

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west… keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Conviction, Will, Conflict

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

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Will, General, Conviction

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

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Will, Conviction

Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing the consequences.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Conscience, Integrity, Conviction, Acceptance, Will

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

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Compassion, Brave, Love, Feelings

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Foresight, Living

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