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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To know music is to transfer it to life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Life is greater than all art.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

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

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

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

Life is but an endless series of experiments.

Nothing is impossible for pure love.

Where there is love there is life.