Succeed To Better World With Top 50 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi the civil rights activist, famously named as Mahatma Gandhi was a visionary and heroic quality leader, his non-violent resistance philosophy helped to free India and the people to end British rule in India and widely referred to as Mahatma with Title i.e., Mahatma Gandhi.

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The Most Popular Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Peace, Love and Faith, gives inspiration and dare to live the life nonviolent, some of these are:

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

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

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

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

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Famous Quotes of Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes in English

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
— Mahatma 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.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
— Mahatma Gandhi (All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections)

“Where there is love there is life.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
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“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“God has no religion.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

• I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
• I shall fear only God.
• I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
• I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
• I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”
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“The future depends on what you do today.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
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“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
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“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
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“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, 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.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“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 in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
— Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

“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.”
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“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
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“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

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

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Action expresses priorities.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?”

[To the Women of India (Young India, Oct. 4, 1930)]”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“My Life is My Message”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhiji Hindi Quotes

You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

आप नहीं जानते कि आपके लिए कौन महत्वपूर्ण है जब तक आप वास्तव में उन्हें खो नहीं देते।

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

मैं हिंसा का विरोध करता हूं क्योंकि जब यह अच्छा करती दिखाई देती है, तो अच्छाई केवल अस्थायी होती है; यह जो बुराई करता है वह स्थायी है।

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

तुम मुझे जंजीर में बांध सकते हो, तुम मुझे यातना दे सकते हो, तुम इस शरीर को नष्ट भी कर सकते हो, लेकिन तुम मेरे मन को कभी कैद नहीं करोगे।

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

अगर मेरे पास सेंस ऑफ ह्यूमर नहीं होता तो मैं बहुत पहले आत्महत्या कर लेता।

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

आप कभी नहीं जान सकते कि आपके कार्यों का क्या परिणाम होता है, लेकिन यदि आप कुछ नहीं करते हैं, तो कोई परिणाम नहीं होगा।

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

जीवन की गति बढ़ाने के अलावा और भी बहुत कुछ है।

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

मैं आपको शांति प्रदान करता हूं। मैं आपको प्यार देता हूं। मैं आपको दोस्ती की पेशकश करता हूं। मैं आपकी सुंदरता देखता हूं। मैं आपकी जरूरत सुनता हूं। मैं आपकी भावनाओं को महसूस करता हूं।

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

प्यार दुनिया की सबसे मजबूत ताकत है और फिर भी यह सबसे विनम्र कल्पना है।

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

दया के सरलतम कार्य प्रार्थना में झुके हुए हज़ार सिरों से कहीं अधिक शक्तिशाली होते हैं।

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

याद रखें कि पूरे इतिहास में, अत्याचारी और हत्यारे रहे हैं, और कुछ समय के लिए वे अजेय लगते हैं। लेकिन अंत में, वे हमेशा गिरते हैं। हमेशा।

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

मौन कायरता बन जाता है जब अवसर पूरे सच बोलने और उसके अनुसार कार्य करने की मांग करता है।

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.

चिंता के समान शरीर को बर्बाद करने वाली कोई चीज नहीं है, और जो ईश्वर में आस्था रखता है, उसे किसी भी बात की चिंता करने में शर्म आनी चाहिए।

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

अगर हम उन्हें नहीं देते हैं तो वे हमारा स्वाभिमान नहीं छीन सकते।

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

एक कायर प्यार का इजहार करने में असमर्थ होता है; यह बहादुर का विशेषाधिकार है।

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhiji Thoughts

“I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.”
— Mahatma Gandhi (Fools, Martyrs, Traitors: The Story of Martyrdom in the Western World)

“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“There is no ‘way to peace,’ there is only ‘peace.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Truth is one, paths are many.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“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 than the one derived from fear of punishment.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.”
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“My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs… Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“When every hope is gone, ‘when helpers fail and comforts flee,’ I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.”
— Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi: An autobiography)

“Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.”
— Mahatma Gandhi (The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas)

“A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”
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“It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): ‘I think it would be a good idea.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“If we are to reach real peace in the world, we shall have to begin with the children.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

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

“What barrier is there that love cannot break?”
— Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi: An autobiography)

“Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“The world has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Live simply so that others may simply live.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.”
— Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi: An autobiography)

“The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.”

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“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.”

Mahatma Gandhi (The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas)

“Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man’s supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.”

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‘In a gentle way, you can shake the world.’

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“The path is the goal.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

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