Mahatma Gandhi, a revered leader of India’s independence movement, advocated nonviolent civil disobedience as a means to achieve freedom and justice. His principles of truth, peace, and equality inspired millions worldwide. Through his life and teachings, he became a symbol of resilience, harmony, and the power of peaceful resistance.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
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.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Action expresses priorities.
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
My life is my message.
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.
In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.
What barrier is there that love cannot break?
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
A ‘No’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Even if the paradise of material satisfactions, which they envisage as their final goal, were realize on earth, it would not bring mankind either contentment or peace.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.
The only Leonard Laudertyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Truth is one, paths are many.
Self-respect knows no considerations.
Action expresses priorities.
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
The future depends on what you do today.
Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.
God has no religion.
True beauty consists of purity of heart.
Find purpose. The means will follow.
There is no ‘way to peace’, there is only ‘peace’.
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Peace is its own reward.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind.
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
Namaste. I honour the place in you where the entire universe resides… a place of light, of love, of truth, of peace, of wisdom. I honour the place in you where when you are in that place and I am in that place there is only one of us.
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall – think of it, always.
There are two days in the year that we can not do anything – yesterday and tomorrow.
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s superior.
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but nonviolent man is unjust by accident. (
Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.
It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.
Study not man in his animal nature – man following the laws of the jungle – but study man in all his glory.
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.