Selected Quotes By Gandhi
"Poverty is the worst form of violence."
Gandhi, Wealth
"In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all."
Gandhi, Love
"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."
Gandhi, Life
"I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect."
Gandhi, Life
"There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent."
Gandhi, Life
"Speak only if it improves upon the silence."
Gandhi, Intelligence/Wisdom
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."
Gandhi, Goals
"They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them."
Gandhi, Life
"Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly."
Gandhi, Courage
"Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable."
Gandhi, Love
"I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings."
Gandhi, Love
"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."
Gandhi, Life
"You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results."
Gandhi, Goals
"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."
Gandhi, Happiness
"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."
Gandhi, Freedom
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
Gandhi, Anger and Fighting
"You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them."
Gandhi, Life
"It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."
Gandhi, Goals
"My Life is My Message."
Gandhi, Goals
"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?"
Gandhi, Sex
"Action expresses priorities."
Gandhi, Management
"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."
Gandhi, Belief
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
Gandhi, Strength
"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."
Gandhi, Anger and Fighting, Love
"Truth never damages a cause that is just."
Gandhi, Truth
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
Gandhi, Work
"The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace."
Gandhi, Love
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
Gandhi, Life
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
Gandhi, Belief
"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
Gandhi, Life
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
Gandhi, Anger and Fighting
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."
Gandhi, Wealth
"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."
Gandhi, Life
"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."
Gandhi, Intelligence/Wisdom
"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
Gandhi, Kindness, Belief
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
Gandhi, Government
"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
Gandhi, Intelligence/Wisdom
"The future depends on what you do today."
Gandhi, Life
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
Gandhi, Life
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
Gandhi, Life
"Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny."
Gandhi, Life
"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
Gandhi, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Hate the sin, love the sinner."
Gandhi, Love
"God has no religion."
Gandhi, Belief
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
Gandhi, Freedom, Mistakes
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
Gandhi, Belief
"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
Gandhi, Belief
"Where there is love there is life."
Gandhi, Love, Life
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Gandhi, Strength
"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."
Gandhi, Truth, Love
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Gandhi, Happiness
"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
Gandhi, Anger and Fighting
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
Gandhi, Goals
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."