Gandhi Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of Gandhi quotes and sayings. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, or Mahatma Gandhi, led Indian nationalism in British-ruled India using non-violent civil disobedience.

“Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.”
– Gandhi

“You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result”
– Gandhi

“You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.”
– Gandhi

“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
– Gandhi

“Whether one or many, I must declare my faith that it is better for India to discard violence altogether even for defending her borders”
– Gandhi

“Where there is love there is life.”
– Gandhi

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
– Gandhi

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way 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.”
– Gandhi

“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
– Gandhi

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
– Gandhi

“What barrier is there that love cannot break?”
– Gandhi

“We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.”
– Gandhi

“We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.”
– Gandhi

“Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.”
– Gandhi

“Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.”
– Gandhi

“True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.”
– Gandhi

“Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to ones own”
– Gandhi

“To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.”
– Gandhi

“To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul”
– Gandhi

“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.”
– Gandhi

“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is”
– Gandhi

“Those who know how to think need no teachers.”
– Gandhi

“There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man.”
– Gandhi

“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”
– Gandhi

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

“There are no good-byes, where ever you’ll be, you’ll be in my heart.”
– Gandhi

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
– Gandhi

“The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country‘s and ultimately that of the whole of mankind”
– Gandhi

“The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.”
– Gandhi

“The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.”
– Gandhi

“The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles”
– Gandhi

“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still small voice within me.”
– Gandhi

“The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.”
– Gandhi

“The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.”
– Gandhi

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

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