Top Inspiring Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Top Inspiring Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Mahatma Gandhi is popularly known as the father of the nation played a prominent role in the Indian Independence movement. He was one of the most inspiring figures known for a variety of humanitarian accomplishments. He is renowned not only in India but around the whole world for his peaceful methods, Gandhi is a tremendous example we could all stand to learn from. Mahatma Gandhi quotes are still inspiring people around the world. Here are a few of his more memorable musings.

Gandhi Quotes

  • My life is my message.

  • Silence is the best answer to anger.

  • An ounce of practice is worth a thousand words.

  • Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi Quotes

  • Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

  • An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

  • The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

  • Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever.

Gandhi Quotes

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

  • It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.

  • Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

  • Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but to change ourselves.

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Gandhi Quotes

  • Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.

  • You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

  • Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

  • Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

Gandhi Quotes

  • Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

  • Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

  • All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others.

  • Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

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Gandhi Quotes

  • I remain an optimist because of my unflinching faith that right must prosper in the end.

  • When you are right, you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

  • Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance, and appreciation.

  • If we want to reach real peace in this world, we should start educating children.

Women Equality Quotes

  • Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves.

  • Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance, and appreciation.

  • The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

  • You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

  • You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean. If a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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Gandhi Quotes

  • If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

  • The world is big enough to satisfy everyone’s needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyone’s greed.

  • You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

  • 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.

Gandhi Quotes

  • We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really in our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

  • Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

  • All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.

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Gandhi Quotes

  • Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

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

Gandhi Quotes

  • Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

  • The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

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