50 Life Changing Quotes From Mahatma Gandhi

1. Where there is love there is life.
2. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
3. My life is my message.
4. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
5. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
6. A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
7. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
8. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
9. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
10. When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
11. Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
12. It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
13. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
14. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
15. Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
16. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
17. Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
18. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
19. Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
20. Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
21. There is more to life than increasing its speed.
22. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
23. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
24. A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
25. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
26. The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
27. If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
28. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
29. You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
30. Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
31. A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
32. There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
33. Action expresses priorities.
34. 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.
35. 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.
36. Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
37. Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
38. What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
39. In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
40. Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
41. There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
42. A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
43. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
44. Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
45. Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
46. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
47. Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
48. Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
49. My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
50. All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.