A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Love
"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Vow
"A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Crime
"All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Gun Control
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Cowardice
"Cowards can never be moral."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Culture
"Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Cowardice
"Fear has its use but cowardice has none."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Freedom
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Government
"Good government is no substitute for self-government."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Happiness
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Hate the sin and love the sinner."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Difference
"Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Inheritance
"I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. "
--Mahatma Gandhi
"I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession [of medicine] and that it is injurious to mankind."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"I offer you peace. I offer you love . I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"I think it would be a good idea."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"I want freedom for the full expression on my personality."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Humor
"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"If you don't ask, you don't get."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness"
--Mahatma Gandhi
"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."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Force
"In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Quality
"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Wisdom
"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."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Life
"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Culture
"No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Self-Control
"Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Vow
"Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Prayer
"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Prayer
"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: President
"President means chief servant."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Idleness
"Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. "
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Will
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Self-Confidence
"The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Sacrifice
"The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Conscience
"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Forgiveness
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Worry
"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."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Unity
"Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"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?"
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love"
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Love
"Where there is love there is life."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Progress
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"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."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Topic: Vow
"Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life."
--Mahatma Gandhi
