Famous Quotes

Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

• 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.
• 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.
• I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
• I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
• 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 object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.
• I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
• I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
• If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
• If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
• If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
• In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
• Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
• Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
• Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
• It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
• It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
• 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.
• It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
• It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
• 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.
• Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
• Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
• Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
• Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
• Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
• Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
• Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
• Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
• Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
• Morality is contraband in war.
• Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
• My life is my message.