Mahatma Gandhi Real Quotations

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

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.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

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

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

Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.

Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.

The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.

The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."

Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.

Character alone will have real effect on the masses.

We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.

Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.

Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.

My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.

Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer.

Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust.

The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.

If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

I believe in God, not as a theory but as a fact more real than life itself.

God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.

Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.

The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.

The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.

Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service .

Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.

The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.

My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.

Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.

We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.

Real beauty is my aim.

The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.

I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.

... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.

The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind

If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

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

Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.

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

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.