Mahatma Gandhi Inspirational Quotations

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

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

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

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

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

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

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

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.

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

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

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

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

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

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.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

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

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.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

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?

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

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.

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

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

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

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.