Mahatma Gandhi Wise Quotations

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

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

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

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

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality

Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.

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

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

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.

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

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

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

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for.

For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back with gold; If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold. Thus the words and actions of the wise regard; Every little service tenfold they reward. But the truly noble know all men as one, And return with gladness good for evil done.

The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.