Gandhi Quotes

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.

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

Where there is love,
There is life.

Happiness depends on what you can give. Not what you can get.

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

Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest person whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to freedom for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find your doubts melt away.

My life is my message.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

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

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

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

Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

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?

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

There is no path to peace- Peace is the path.

First they ignore us, then they laugh at us, then they attack us- then we win.

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.

The seven blunders: wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; business or commerce without morality; science without humanity; religion without sacrifice; politics without principle.

What you do is of little significance; but it is very important that you do it.