Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is also called Bapu (Gujarati: endearment for "father", "papa") in India.
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True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and follow...

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Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

Mahatma Gandhi

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Mahatma Gandhi

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

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There's more to life than increasing its speed

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

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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.

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I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

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Violence begins with the fork.

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Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.

Mahatma Gandhi

The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started pr...

Mahatma Gandhi

Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God,' - this appears to be the commandment in all religions. This need not frighten anyone. He who devotes himself to service with a clear conscience, will day by day grasp the necessity fo...

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I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them to respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty...

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It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

Mahatma Gandhi

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. This means the when you go to sleep you close your eyes and you are and look like you are dead but then when you wake up it looks like you are reborn because yo...

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Author Bio

  • NameMahatma Gandhi
  • Descriptionpre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
  • AliasesBapu; Gandhi; Gandhiji; Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; M K Gandhi; Mohandas K. Gandhi; mahatma gandhi; gandhi appupan; Mohandas Gandhi
  • BornOctober 2, 1869
  • DiedJanuary 30, 1948
  • CountryIndia
  • ProfessionPolitician; Lawyer; Political Writer; Journalist; Philosopher; Autobiographer; Essayist; Newspaper Editor; Political Activist
  • AwardsTime Person Of The Year