Mahatma Gandhi Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people. — Mahatma Gandhi

I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed. — Mahatma Gandhi

A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy. — Mahatma Gandhi

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason! — Mahatma Gandhi

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter. — Mahatma Gandhi

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win. — Mahatma Gandhi

If you want real peace in the world, start with children. — Mahatma Gandhi

We are the makers of our own state and ... individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action. — Mahatma Gandhi

Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy. — Mahatma Gandhi

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation. — Mahatma Gandhi

You can't lead a true life without suffering — Mahatma Gandhi

Be the compromise you want to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together — Mahatma Gandhi

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice. — Mahatma Gandhi

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul. — Mahatma Gandhi

We must become the change we want to see. — Mahatma Gandhi

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change that you wish to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

True beauty lies in purity of the heart. — Mahatma Gandhi

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act. — Mahatma Gandhi

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path. — Mahatma 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. — Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult. — Mahatma Gandhi

There is no way to peace, peace is the only way — Mahatma Gandhi

The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru. — Mahatma Gandhi

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi

Let's be grateful to all those who came in before us. Grateful to all those men and women, young and old alike, who paved the path forward for us, brick by brick. To those men and women who marched across the bridge in Selma on that great day, those men and women who rallied behind the Gandhis and the Mandelas every single time they were needed, to those men and women who stood up for voting rights and civil rights and gay rights and equality and justice and a free world, those men and women who invented the future by inventing things that fundamentally changed the world from the electricity to vaccinations, from airplanes to birth control pills, from the printing press to the internet. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber. — Mahatma Gandhi

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience. — Mahatma Gandhi

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals. — Mahatma Gandhi

All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions. — Mahatma Gandhi

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it
always. — Mahatma Gandhi

In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery. — Mahatma Gandhi

When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi

God never occurs to you in person but always in action. — Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? — Mahatma Gandhi

Many of us can't go home again, whether home is Seville, Cabo Sur, Nastas, Havana, or Kansas City. Thus, we must recognize that home really lies in the eternal peace, dormant or conscious, that dwells in each human heart ... Quote from "Ms. Quixote Goes Country", a truthful novel. — LEVega

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend. — Mahatma Gandhi

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles. — Mahatma Gandhi

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me. — Mahatma Gandhi

Your tomorrow depends entirely on what you do today. — Mahatma Gandhi

We keep waiting for another Mahatma to make a difference in our society and nation. Well it is time to stop waiting. The mantra is "I change to change India". Which means each of us is the Mahatma and has the power to change this nation. Failing which we shall never change for the better. — Jeroninio Almeida

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. — Mahatma Gandhi

If you don't ask, you don't get it — Mahatma Gandhi

Clear conscience never fear midnight knocking. — Mahatma Gandhi

On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, I salute every individual who honors the core values of his legacy, making him proud of humanity. — Widad Akreyi

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results. — Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi

There's no God higher than truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. — Mahatma Gandhi

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing. — Mahatma Gandhi

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God. — Mahatma Gandhi

And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend — Mahatma Gandhi

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within. — Mahatma Gandhi

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses. — Mahatma Gandhi

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world. — Mahatma Gandhi

You must be the change you want for the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ. — Mahatma Gandhi

My Life is My Message — Mahatma Gandhi

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?
[To the Women of India (Young India, Oct. 4, 1930)] — Mahatma Gandhi

The one religion is beyond all speech. — Mahatma Gandhi