Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.

Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

You can't lead a true life without suffering

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

The Law which governs all life is God.

The sum of all that lives is God.

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.

The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.

The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

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