Famous Quotes

Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

• My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
• Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
• Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
• Non-violence is the article of faith.
• Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
• Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
• One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
• Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
• Peace is its own reward.
• 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.
• Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
• Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
• Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
• Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
• Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
• The good man is the friend of all living things.
• 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.
• The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
• The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
• There is more to life than increasing its speed.
• There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
• 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.
• Those who know how to think need no teachers.
• Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
• To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
• Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
• Truth never damages a cause that is just.
• Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
• Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.