Mahatma gandhi quotes

Live every day like it is your last and learn everyday like you will live forever

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.

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

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

True beauty consists of purity of heart.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

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.

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

Love is no love which asks for a return.

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.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

Let us work together for unity and love.

Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow

Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

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

Your action expresses your priorities.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.

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

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.

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

We may attack systems. We must not attack men.

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

It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

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

We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.

The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

There is no path to peace; peace is the path.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

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

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

Find purpose. The means will follow.

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.

Be the change you are trying to create.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

My life is my message.

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

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

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

Think for tomorrow but act for today.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

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.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

People cannot hurt you without your permission.

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.

Where there is love there is life.

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

Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.

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

Life is but an endless series of experiments.

The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.

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

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

Eye for eye and the world will go blind.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

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

Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.

Let your life be your message.

Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.

Your future depends on what you do today.

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

God has no religion.

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.

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

A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.

You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere.

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.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.

Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

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

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.

The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

If you do nothing there will be no results

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.