Mahatma Gandhi Ira Quotations

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

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

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.

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

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

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

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

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.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

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.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

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

My life is my message.

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

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

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.

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

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

The one religion is beyond all speech.

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

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

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

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

Be the change you want to see.

God never occurs to you in person but always in action.

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

It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.

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.

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

Take care of this moment.

Without action, you aren't going anywhere.

All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

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

There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.

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.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

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

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

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

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

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

The future depends on what we do in the present.

We must become the change we want to see.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

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

It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

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.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

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

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

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

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

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

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 the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Continue to grow and evolve.

Change yourself - you are in control.