Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule. He employed nonviolent civil disobedience to achieve his goals and was an advocate of civil rights and freedom for all people. He is remembered as a major political and spiritual leader of India and is often referred to as the father of the nation. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Mahatma Gandhi on education, leadership, success.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Education
Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people. — Mahatma Gandhi
I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education. — Mahatma Gandhi
I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education. — Mahatma Gandhi
It's easy to stand with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone.
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities. — Mahatma Gandhi
There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader. — Mahatma Gandhi
The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft. — Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer — Mahatma Gandhi
What better book can there be than the book of humanity. — Mahatma Gandhi
No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal. — Mahatma Gandhi
True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious. — Mahatma Gandhi
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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Leadership
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear. — Mahatma Gandhi
Be the compromise you want to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. — Mahatma Gandhi
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity. — Mahatma Gandhi
Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path. — Mahatma Gandhi
A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you. — Mahatma Gandhi
To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership. — Mahatma Gandhi
When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Success
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present — Mahatma Gandhi
A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success. — Mahatma Gandhi
Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats. — Mahatma Gandhi
Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips. — Mahatma Gandhi
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator. — Mahatma Gandhi
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
A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses. — Mahatma Gandhi
Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Truth
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. — Mahatma Gandhi
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. — Mahatma Gandhi
A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi
Truth never damages a cause that is just. — Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. — Mahatma Gandhi
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. — Mahatma 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. — Mahatma Gandhi
Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help. — Mahatma Gandhi
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Peace
Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals. — Mahatma Gandhi
I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price. — Mahatma Gandhi
There is no path to peace; peace is the path. — Mahatma Gandhi
Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen. — Mahatma Gandhi
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. — Mahatma Gandhi
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. — Mahatma Gandhi
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. — Mahatma Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Christ
Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice. — Mahatma Gandhi
The thing about you Christians, is that you are so unlike your Christ. — Mahatma Gandhi
I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity. — Mahatma Gandhi
I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man. — Mahatma Gandhi
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. — Mahatma Gandhi
If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today. — Mahatma Gandhi
If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place. — Mahatma Gandhi
Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Love
If you want to change the world, start with yourself. — Mahatma Gandhi
Where there is love there is life. — Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. — 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 then the one derived from fear of punishment. — Mahatma Gandhi
Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. — Mahatma Gandhi
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable. — Mahatma Gandhi
You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them. — Mahatma Gandhi
Hate the sin, love the sinner. — Mahatma Gandhi
The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Change
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi
A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history. — Mahatma Gandhi
Be the change you want to see. — Mahatma Gandhi
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal. — Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. — Mahatma Gandhi
We must become the change we want to see. — Mahatma Gandhi
Change yourself - you are in control. — Mahatma Gandhi
In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all. — Mahatma Gandhi
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you want to change the world, be that change. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Peaceful
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. — Mahatma Gandhi
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it — Mahatma Gandhi
You can't shake hands with a closed fist. — Mahatma Gandhi
Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. — Mahatma Gandhi
Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment. — Mahatma Gandhi
We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi
With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About World
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. — Mahatma Gandhi
Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen. — Mahatma Gandhi
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. — 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
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. — Mahatma Gandhi
Live simply so that others may simply live. — Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy. — Mahatma Gandhi
The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one. — Mahatma Gandhi
For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him. — Mahatma Gandhi
In a gentle way, you can shake the world. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Faith
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. — Mahatma Gandhi
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
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. — Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. — Mahatma Gandhi
Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures. — Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather. — Mahatma Gandhi
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. — Mahatma Gandhi
Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue. — Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is a function of the heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Life
A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself. — Mahatma Gandhi
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed. — Mahatma Gandhi
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. — Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole. — Mahatma Gandhi
Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life. — Mahatma Gandhi
If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d. — Mahatma Gandhi
My life is my message. — Mahatma Gandhi
Life is but an endless series of experiments. — Mahatma Gandhi
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. — Mahatma Gandhi
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Nonviolence
The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence. — Mahatma Gandhi
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident. — Mahatma Gandhi
History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance. — Mahatma Gandhi
Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. — Mahatma Gandhi
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi Famous Quotes And Sayings
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. — Mahatma Gandhi
Speak only if it improves upon the silence. — 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
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. — Mahatma Gandhi
Where there is love there is life. — Mahatma Gandhi
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. — 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
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. — Mahatma Gandhi
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. — Mahatma Gandhi
You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul. — Mahatma Gandhi
For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect. — Mahatma Gandhi
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
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community. — Mahatma Gandhi
It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified. — Mahatma Gandhi
We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts. — Mahatma Gandhi
There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results. — Mahatma Gandhi
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. — Mahatma Gandhi
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern! — Mahatma Gandhi
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. — Mahatma Gandhi
Your action expresses your priorities. — Mahatma Gandhi
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind. — Mahatma Gandhi
Be congruent, be authentic and be yourself. — Mahatma Gandhi
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. — Mahatma Gandhi
Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth. — Mahatma Gandhi
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so. — Mahatma Gandhi
Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you don't ask, you don't get. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you do nothing there will be no results — Mahatma Gandhi
Truth never damages a cause that is just. — Mahatma Gandhi
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. — Mahatma Gandhi
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed. — Mahatma Gandhi
Poverty is the worst form of violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day. — Mahatma Gandhi
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. — Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. — Mahatma Gandhi
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear. — Mahatma Gandhi
All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names. — Mahatma Gandhi
The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism. — 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
Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire. — Mahatma Gandhi
The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes. — Mahatma Gandhi
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. — Mahatma Gandhi
The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi
Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth. — Mahatma Gandhi
Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet. — 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
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. — Mahatma Gandhi
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease. — Mahatma Gandhi
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings. — Mahatma Gandhi
The soul of India lives in its villages. — Mahatma Gandhi
Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers. — Mahatma Gandhi
That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy. — Mahatma Gandhi
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives. — Mahatma Gandhi
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. — Mahatma Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. — Mahatma Gandhi
Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India. — Mahatma Gandhi
Be the change you want to see. — Mahatma Gandhi
Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person
accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions. — Mahatma Gandhi
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die. — Mahatma Gandhi
Life Lessons by Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi taught us the importance of non-violence and peaceful protest as a means to achieving positive change.
He also showed us the power of leading by example and the importance of having a strong moral compass.
He demonstrated the power of self-discipline, resilience and perseverance in the face of adversity.
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