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)

Woman is the companion of man, gifted in equal mental capacity.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Women

To lose patience is to lose the battle.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Patience

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

Violent means will give violent freedom.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Don’t listen to friends when the Friend inside you says ‘Do this.’.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Friendship

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Law, Lawyers, Laws

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Work, Occupation

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: Love, History, God, Poor

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is notworth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Friendship

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

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

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

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Business, Responsibility

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

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Profit

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: Challenges, Faith

The good man is the friend of all living things.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Friendship

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

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

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

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

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

Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Prayer

A ‘No’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Integrity, Candor, Vice, Sincerity

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Miscellaneous, Service

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: Religion, Christianity

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

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Innovation, Politics, Religion

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Gentleness