Mahatma Gandhi
Indian leader of the independence movement, 1869-1948
44 quotes.
Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
- A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
- A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.
- A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
- All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action
- Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
- An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.
- An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
- Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- I am an irrepressible optimist, but I always base my optimism on solid facts.
- I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.
- 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.
- In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
- 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.
- It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
- 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. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.
- My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
- My life is my message.
- One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
- Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.
- People cannot hurt you without your permission.
- Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.
- Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
- Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
- Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.
- Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from indomitable will.
- That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
- The future depends on what we do in the present.
- The future depends on what you do today.
- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed
- There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.
- 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.
- They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
- To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
- Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- 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--always.