Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Quotes

• In true democracy every man and women is taught to think for himself or herself.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Democracy

• The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in History

  Tags in Action, Faith

• A “No” uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a “Yes” merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality

• My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Attitude, Humanity

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality

• A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Change/Growth, Character, Dreams, Thinking, Ideas, Imagination

• Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Unity, Action, Attention, Credo, Creed

• Where there is love there is life.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Life, Love

• Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Hatred

• Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works, whether we accept it or not. The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Love

• Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Forgiveness, Choice, Choosing

• I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Politics, Religion

  Tags in Mind

• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Humanity, Mistake

  Tags in Human Rights, Injustice, Freedom

•  Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Money

• To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Awareness, Garden

• We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Tags in Nonviolence

• Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Tags in Nonviolence

• I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nonviolence, Marriage

• Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Nonviolence

• A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Compromise, Ideals, Perfection

  Tags in Limitations

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (268)

Birth:	2nd October, 1869
Death:	30th January, 1948
Nationality:	Indian
Profession:	Activist, Lawyer, Leader, Philosopher, Politician, Statesman, Writer

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