Top 500 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

352. “The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

353. “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

354. “Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

355. “The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

356. “Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

361. “Make injustice visible.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

365. “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

366. “My greatest weapon is mute prayer.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

369. “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

370. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

373. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

375. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

378. “With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

384. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

386. “The voice of the people may be said to be God’s voice, the voice of the Panchayat.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

390. “No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

391. “Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

394. “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

395. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

397. “Labour is priceless, not gold.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

398. “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

399. “Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

400. “Real beauty is my aim.”

— Mahatma Gandhi