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)
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Gentleness, Eyes, Miscellaneous, Revenge
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Reason, Truth
Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Humankind, Action, Living, Will, Conviction
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Action
It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Peace, War
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Love, Compassion, Culture
It is as difficult to make the impossible possible, as it is easy to make the possible impossible.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
The root cause of most of our misunderstandings lies in distrust and at the root of this distrust mostly lies fear.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Power
Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Peace
Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Weapon
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Technology, Science
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Confidence, Leadership, History, Self Confidence
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Soul, Weakness, Compassion, Confrontation, Forgiveness, Love
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
Service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Helpfulness, Service
To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one’s faith in man and God, even one’s own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Customers
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Media, Equality, News
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Change
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
One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
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
Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Promises
My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving dear ones unprotected. Between violence and cowardly flight, I can only prefer violence to cowardice. I can no more preach nonviolence to a coward than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Compassion
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Thought, Living, Teachers, Thinking, Teaching
Non-violence is the article of faith.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Topics: Faith
To speak or not to speak—when that is the question, silence should take the place of speech.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
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
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Indira Gandhi Indian Head of State
- Sri Aurobindo Indian Mystic, Philosopher, Poet
- Paramahansa Yogananda Indian Hindu Mystic
- Nisargadatta Maharaj Indian Hindu Religious Leader
- Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Indian Hindu Religious Leader
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Indian Hindu Religious Leader
- Sathya Sai Baba Indian Hindu Religious Leader
- Rabindranath Tagore Bengali Poet, Polymath
- Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu Monk, Mystic
- Dada J. P. Vaswani Indian Hindu Philosopher
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