Top 500 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

302. “Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

303. “Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

304. “Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

305. “There is no road towards peace; peace is the road.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

306. “Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

307. “Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

308. “Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

309. “The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

310. “Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God’s attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

311. “Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

312. “Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

313. “I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

314. “I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

315. “The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

316. “A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

317. “If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, ‘O yes, I am a Christian.’”

— Mahatma Gandhi

318. “Let our lives be open books for all to study.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

319. “The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

320. “For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

321. “To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

322. “One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

323. “Education without courage is like a wax statue – beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

324. “Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

325. “Good travels at a snail’s pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

326. “True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

327. “Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

328. “Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

329. “A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

330. “Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

331. “A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

332. “That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

333. “The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

334. “In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

335. “You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

336. “A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

337. “What better book can there be than the book of humanity.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

338. “Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

339. “Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

340. “See the good in people and help them.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

341. “He who does not see God in the next person he meets need look no further.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

342. “Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

343. “Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

344. “Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

345. “Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don’t go together any more that water and fire.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

346. “When I don’t understand something, I reach up and hold God’s hand. And we walk together in silence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

347. “God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

348. “A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the ‘do or die’ slogan.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

349. “Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

350. “Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.”

— Mahatma Gandhi