“Be the change 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.”
“The future depends on what you do today.”
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
“You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”
“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.”
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
“Where there is love there is life.”
“Action expresses priorities.”
“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
“My life is my message.”
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
“In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.”
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
“If you want to change the world, start with yourself.”
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
“Live simply so that others may simply live.”
“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”
“Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.”
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.”
“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.”
“To lose patience is to lose the battle.”
“God has no religion.”
“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”
“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
“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.”
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
“Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle and a victory.”
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
“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.”
“The path is the goal.”
“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.”
“Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.”
“When the ego dies, the soul awakes.”
“Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.”
“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
“Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.”
“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
“They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”
“I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.”
“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”
“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
“You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.”
“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.”
“I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.”
“Truth is one, paths are many.”
“A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”
“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”
“There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”
“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”
“Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.”
“I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.”
“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.”
“Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”
“Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.”
“There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.”
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
“I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.”
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
“A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.”
“In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.”
“Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.”
“They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.”
“There is no ‘way to peace,’ there is only ’peace.”
“It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.”
“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”
“If we are to reach real peace in the world, we shall have to begin with the children.”
“What barrier is there that love cannot break?”
“Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.”
“Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.”
“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.”
“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”
“Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.”
“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.”
“The future of India lies in its villages.”
“Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.”
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