Mahatma Gandhi Life Quotations

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

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

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

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.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

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

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doingwrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

In Gujarat Hitler's life and works have been glorified in school textbooks which is a very serious matter,

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

The mantra 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.

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.

The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being.

Your life is your message.

Life is one indivisible whole.

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

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

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

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.

Life is greater than all art.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

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

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

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

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.

My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.

Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.

The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life.

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

Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.

The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.

Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

To know music is to transfer it to life.

The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.

This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

Where there is love there is life.

Nothing is impossible for pure love.

Life is but an endless series of experiments.

Let your life be your message.

There is no path to peace; peace is the path.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your 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 life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

You can't lead a true life without suffering

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

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?

If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

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

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.

The Law which governs all life is God.

The sum of all that lives is God.

One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.