Top 500 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

52. “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

53. “Poverty is the worst form of violence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

54. “The future of India lies in its villages.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

55. “They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

56. “The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

57. “You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

58. “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

59. “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

60. “Truth is one, paths are many.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

61. “Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

62. “A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

63. “I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

64. “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

65. “Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

66. “If you don’t ask, you don’t get it.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

67. “A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

68. “There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

70. “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.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

71. “I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

72. “There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

73. “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

74. “Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

75. “Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

76. “In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

77. “Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

78. “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

79. “Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

81. “I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

82. “They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

83. “There is no ‘way to peace,’ there is only ‘peace.’”

— Mahatma Gandhi

84. “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

85. “It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

86. “It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

87. “If we are to reach real peace in the world, we shall have to begin with the children.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

88. “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

89. “If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

90. “The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

91. “Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

92. “Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

93. “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.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

94. “Live every day like it is your last and learn everyday like you will live forever.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

95. “Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

96. “What barrier is there that love cannot break?”

— Mahatma Gandhi

97. “Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

98. “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

99. “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

100. “Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.”

— Mahatma Gandhi