Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

The future depends on what you do today.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.

You dont know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of ones self-respect.

Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Ask the poor. Theyll tell you who the christians are.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever I have heard of someone threatening to commit suicide, it has had little or no effect on me.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Its the action, not the fruit of the action, thats important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that therell be any fruit. But that doesnt mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.This means the when you go to sleep you close your eyes and you are and look like you are dead but then when you wake up it looks like you are reborn because you are up and ready.

I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any.