Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

About Mahatma Gandhi:

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is also called Bapu (Gujarati: endearment for "father", "papa") in India.
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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

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

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Mahatma Gandhi

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Mahatma Gandhi

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Mahatma Gandhi

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Mahatma Gandhi

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Mahatma Gandhi

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Mahatma Gandhi

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Mahatma Gandhi

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Mahatma Gandhi

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Mahatma Gandhi

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