Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

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

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

There is no god higher than truth.

We must become the change we want to see.

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

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

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

Morality is contraband in war.

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.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.

Between husband and wife there should be no secrets from one another. I have a very high opinion of the marriage tie. I hold that husband and wife merge in each other.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

I think it would be a good idea.

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

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

I want freedom for the full expression on my personality.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy.

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

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

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.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

My life is my message.

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

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