Top 500 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

352. “Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

353. “The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man’s Swaraj.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

354. “When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

355. “Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

356. “Make injustice visible.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

357. “I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

358. “Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

359. “Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

361. “My greatest weapon is mute prayer.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

362. “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

363. “My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

365. “You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

366. “It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

367. “Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

368. “I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

369. “True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

370. “I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

371. “I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

373. “It is the law of love that rules mankind.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

374. “You can’t shake hands with a closed fist.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

375. “A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

376. “Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

377. “My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

378. “Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

379. “Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

380. “The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

381. “Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

382. “I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

383. “What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

384. “Always believe in your dreams, because if you don’t, you’ll still have hope.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

386. “The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

387. “The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

388. “Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

389. “When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

390. “Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

391. “Labour is priceless, not gold.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

392. “Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

394. “Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

395. “With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

396. “Real beauty is my aim.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

397. “The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

398. “You can judge a society by the way it treats it’s animals.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

399. “An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

400. “It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom.”

— Mahatma Gandhi