Top 500 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

402. “Labour is priceless, not gold.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

404. “Real beauty is my aim.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

408. “Life is one indivisible whole.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

412. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

418. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

423. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

426. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

431. “The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

446. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

448. “To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi