Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma Gandhi

Nature, Good, Friend

Each one prays to God according to his own light.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Light, Prays

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy, Liberty, Mad

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
Mahatma Gandhi

Strong, Weak, Accident

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.
Mahatma Gandhi

Strong, May, Thought

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Truth, Him

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.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Anger, Done

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, Honest, Often

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Justice, Law

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.
Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness, Daily, Thinking

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi

Victory, Effort, Lies

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

Woman, Old, Prayer

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, Support, Public

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, Reason, Blind

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi

Heart, Single, Give

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.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Woman, Become

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
Mahatma Gandhi

Goal, Lies, Reach

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mahatma Gandhi

Live, Dishonest

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.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Him, Liberty

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Generosity, Race

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? 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.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Evil, Give

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

Men, Good, Others

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi

Die, Cause, Prepared

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma Gandhi

Law, Violence, Unjust

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.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Live, Give

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Leader

Born: October 2, 1869

Died: January 30, 1948

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