Top 500 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

405. “Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

406. “In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

407. “When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

411. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

416. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

419. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

423. “As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

427. “It does not require money, to live neat, clean and dignified...”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

430. “Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

433. “If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

437. “Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

438. “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

439. “Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

441. “Truth triumphs, even if there be no public support.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

445. “Life is one indivisible whole.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

448. “There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi