MAHATMA 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.”

"I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following."

'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.'

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

'Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

"All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth."

'Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.'

'Speak only if it improves upon the silence.'

"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."

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

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 can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, Think of it-- always.

"Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position"

'In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.'

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

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

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

"Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all."

'God has no religion.'

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."

'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.'

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

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

'Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.'

'Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.'

'No one can hurt me without my permission'

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

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

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, and the Soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul."

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

"My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him."

"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."

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."

“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."

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.