Inspirational Quotations by Mahatma Gandhi

  • Prayer needs a heart, not a tongue.
    From Issue 8
  • I donot want my house to be walled in
    on all sides and my windows to be stuffed.
    I want the cultures of all the lands to be
    blown about my house as freely as possible.
    But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
    From Issue 8
  • Seven Social Sins
    Politics without principles
    Wealth without work
    Pleasure without conscience
    Knowledge without character
    Commerce without morality
    Science without humanity
    Worship without sacrifice
    From Issue 8
  • 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.
    From Issue 8
  • It is as difficult to make the impossible possible,
    as it is easy to make the possible impossible.
    From Issue 8
  • The root cause of most of our misunderstandings lies
    in distrust and at the root of this distrust mostly lies fear.
    From Issue 8
  • Fear serves only to accentuate suffering
    and makes one's condition pitiable.
    From Issue 8
  • The soul dries up without the company of the good.
    From Issue 8
  • If you want to stand before God,
    you must shed your robe of egoism.
    From Issue 8
  • You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
    Topic: Change
    From Issue 13
  • 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.
    From Issue 20
  • Even a single lamp dispels the darkness
    From Issue 24
  • Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe
    I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it.
    But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability
    to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.
    From Issue 34
  • Strength does not come from physical capacity.
    It comes from an indomitable will.
    From Issue 44
  • Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
    From Issue 48
  • Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.
    Full effort is full victory.
    From Issue 114
  • The weak can never forgive.
    Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
    Topics: Forgiveness, Confrontation
    From Issue 126
  • An eye for an eye makes the whole blind.
    Topics: Forgiveness, Confrontation
    From Issue 127
  • Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
    Learn as if you were to live forever.
    From Issue 212
  • There are people in the world so hungry,
    that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
  • "Hate the sin & not the sinner" is a percept which,
    though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced,
    and therefore the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

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