Top 500 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “To a pure heart all hearts are pure.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

153. “Adversity is the mother of progress.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

154. “Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

155. “You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

156. “There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

157. “The sole aim of journalism should be service.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

158. “I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

159. “There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

160. “In the midst of darkness, light persists.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

161. “I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

162. “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

163. “No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

164. “Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

165. “Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

166. “Let us work together for unity and love.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

167. “The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

168. “An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

169. “No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

170. “Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

171. “By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

172. “Mass illiteracy is India’s sin and shame and must be liquidated.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

173. “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

174. “Freedom and slavery are mental states.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

175. “Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

176. “Full effort is full victory.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

177. “Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

178. “Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

179. “Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

180. “God alone knows absolute Truth.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

181. “Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

182. “The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

183. “Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

184. “Learn as if you will live forever.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

185. “True beauty lies in purity of the heart.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

186. “When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

187. “Think for tomorrow but act for today.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

188. “Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

189. “If you’re going to be a bear, be a grizzly.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

190. “There are Seven Deadly Social Sins: Politics without principle. Wealth without work. Commerce without morality. Pleasure without conscience. Education without character. Science without humility. Worship without sacrifice.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

191. “Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

192. “It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

193. “Simplicity is the essence of universality.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

194. “If untouchability lives, humanity must die.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

195. “A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

196. “Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

197. “Change yourself – you are in control.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

198. “I am a proud staunch Sanatani Hindu.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

199. “Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

200. “Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi