Top 500 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

452. “A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

453. “It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

454. “The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

455. “God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

456. “A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

457. “Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

458. “Good government is no substitute for self-government.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

459. “The wind of God’s grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

460. “The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

461. “I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

462. “As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

463. “The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

464. “The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

465. “If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

466. “Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

467. “No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

468. “In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

469. “Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized – the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

470. “Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

471. “It does not require money, to live neat, clean and dignified...”

— Mahatma Gandhi

472. “Life is but an endless series of experiments.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

473. “Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

474. “Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

476. “If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

477. “Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

478. “Truth triumphs, even if there be no public support.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

479. “Never make a promise in haste.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

480. “Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

481. “What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

482. “To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

483. “Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

484. “If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

485. “True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

486. “Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

487. “If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

488. “There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

489. “Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

490. “It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

491. “Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

492. “God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

493. “Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

494. “If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

495. “Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

496. “Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

497. “A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

498. “It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

499. “Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

500. “I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.”

— Mahatma Gandhi