Top 500 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

102. “A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

104. “Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

105. “All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

106. “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.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

107. “Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

108. “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.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

109. “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

110. “Continue to grow and evolve.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

111. “We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

112. “I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

113. “I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

114. “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.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

115. “The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

116. “Find purpose. The means will follow.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

117. “I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

118. “Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

119. “I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

120. “A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

121. “Patience means self-suffering.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

122. “There’s no God higher than truth.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

123. “A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

124. “Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

125. “Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

126. “When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

127. “If you do what you enjoy doing you’ll never have to work hard.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

128. “The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

129. “Without action, you aren’t going anywhere.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

130. “The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

131. “Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

132. “A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

133. “Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

134. “Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

135. “Nothing is impossible for pure love.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

136. “There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

137. “Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

138. “It’s not too late at all. You just don’t yet know what you are capable of.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

139. “Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

140. “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”

— Mahatma Gandhi

141. “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

142. “Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

143. “A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

144. “If you worry about yesterday’s failures, then today’s successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

145. “The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

146. “Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

147. “The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

148. “Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

149. “Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

150. “Sanitation is more important than Independence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi