Recommended Reading
- ‘The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas‘ by Mahatma Gandhi
- ‘Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth‘ by Mahatma Gandhi
- ‘Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World‘ by Eknath Easwaran
- ‘All Men are Brothers: Life and Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi‘ by Mahatma Gandhi
- ‘India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy‘ by Ramachandra Guha
Inspirational Quotes by Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)
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
You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won’t help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Activism
One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Faith, Religion
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Fear, Coward, Cowardice
Be the change you want to see in the world.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Mentoring, One liners, Purpose, Change, Kindness, Vision
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Truth, Love
Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Morality
I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Conscience
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Vision, Prophecy, Truth
Earth and heaven are in us.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Peace, Friendship, Friend, Beauty, Love
To speak or not to speak—when that is the question, silence should take the place of speech.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Goodness
It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Religion, Friendship, Faith
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Culture, Compassion, Love
Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Religion, Faith
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Zeal, Principles
Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Evil
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Teaching, Teachers, Living, Thinking, Thought
Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment, and increases the capacity for service.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Patience means self-suffering.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Patience
A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Promises
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Love
The true battlefield is within.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
We must become the change we want to see.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Change
Truth is by nature self-evident, as soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Truth
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
Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Unity
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
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