Mahatma Gandhi Sit Quotations

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

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.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Let your thoughts be positive for they will become your words. Let your words be positive for they will become your actions. Let your actions be positive for they will become your values. Let your values be positive for they will become your destiny.

Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.

I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.

Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.

Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.

I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.

Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.

It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

Adversity is the mother of progress.

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

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.

Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.