Top 500 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

402. “Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

403. “God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

404. “Those who know how to think need no teachers.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

405. “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

406. “Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

407. “Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

408. “I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

409. “I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

410. “God speaks to us every day only we don’t know how to listen.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

411. “Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

412. “A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

413. “Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

414. “Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

415. “Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

417. “The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

418. “The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

420. “The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life’s activities.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

421. “Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

422. “Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

423. “True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

424. “Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

425. “Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

426. “Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

427. “There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

428. “There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

429. “One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

431. “The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

432. “There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

433. “You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

434. “The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

435. “Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

436. “Life is one indivisible whole.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

437. “There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

438. “Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

439. “We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

440. “Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

441. “Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

442. “Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

443. “The good man is the friend of all living things.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

444. “Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India’s just cause.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

445. “What is faith if it is not translated into action?”

— Mahatma Gandhi

446. “If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

447. “Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

448. “I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

449. “Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

450. “Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.”

— Mahatma Gandhi