Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of ones weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every mans needs, but not every mans greed.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is mans injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably mans superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?, Oct. 4, 1930)]

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

Prayer is not an old womans idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

Violence begins with the fork.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still small voice within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.

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 othersto act according to his own view of truth.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.