Mahatma Gandhi
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.Collection: Easter
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.Collection: Alone
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.Collection: Faith
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.Collection: Love
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.Collection: Men
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.Collection: Relationship
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.Collection: Truth
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.Collection: Truth
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.Collection: Faith
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.Collection: Strength
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.Collection: History
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.Collection: Forgiveness
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.Collection: Future
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.Collection: Religion
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.Collection: Faith
It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.Collection: Marriage
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?Collection: Mothers
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.Collection: Inspirational
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Happiness
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.Collection: Leadership
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.Collection: Truth
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.Collection: Good
If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.Collection: Religion
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.Collection: Beauty
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.Collection: Great
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Anger
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.Collection: Faith
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.Collection: Nature
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.Collection: Fear
Peace is its own reward.Collection: Peace
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.Collection: Peace
Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.Collection: Future
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.Collection: Truth
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.Collection: Happiness
Where there is love there is life.Collection: Life
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.Collection: Anger
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.Collection: Morning
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.Collection: Peace
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.Collection: Work
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.Collection: Religion
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.Collection: God
Non-violence is the article of faith.Collection: Faith
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Patience
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.Collection: Anger
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.Collection: Death
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.Collection: Society
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.Collection: Good