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Mahatma Gandhi quotes taken from https://parade.com/1247073/marynliles/gandhi-quotes/
The future depends on what we do in the present
It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone
Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but to change ourselves
Service without humility is selfishness and egotism
It does not require money to live neat, clean, and dignified
My life is my message
Speak only if it improves upon the silence
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment
Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation
Hate the sin, love the sinner
It’s easy to stand with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will
Strength does not come from winning. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength
Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity
Be the change you are trying to create
Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but to change ourselves
There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow
In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all
There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow
There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony
Those who know how to think need no teachers
What barrier is there that love cannot break
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave
Full effort is full victory
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn
In a gentle way, you can shake the world
Be the change you wish to see in the world
The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity
Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment
Man should forget his anger before he goes to sleep
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning
Gentleness, self-sacrifice, and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion
Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers
To lose patience is to lose the battle
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
Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth
A ‘No’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble
Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes
If you want to change the world, start with yourself
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate but it is fear
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony
To lose patience is to lose the battle
No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness
It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your actions. But if you do nothing, there will be no result
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness
The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children
Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature
Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will
Your action expresses your priorities
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake
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
For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments are equally imperfect
Even if the paradise of material satisfaction, which they envisage as their final goal, were realized on earth, it would not bring mankind either contentment or peace
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people
The real love is to love those that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him
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
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear
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
The future depends on what you do today
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind
A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity
Nobody can hurt me without my permission
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men
When you are right, you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry
Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people
Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong
If we want to reach real peace in this world, we should start educating children
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within
Live simply so that others may simply live
The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into
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
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong
A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him
There is more to life than increasing its speed
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it
Life is but an endless series of experiments
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love
Where there is love there is life
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth
Take care of this moment
It’s not too late at all. You just don’t yet know what you are capable of
Truth is one, paths are many
Find purpose. The means will follow
Self-respect knows no considerations
Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use
Action expresses priorities
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
Common sense is the realized sense of proportion
You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection
The future depends on what you do today
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected
Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems
God has no religion
Nothing is impossible for pure love
True beauty consists of purity of heart
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly
Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers
There is no ‘way to peace’, there is only ‘peace’
I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress
Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness
Imitation is the sincerest flattery
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer
Peace is its own reward
It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words
I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth
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