Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

Selfless action is a source of strength.

True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.

If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

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

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.

In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

In the midst of death life persists.

[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

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

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.