Gandhi Quotes

“But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“Facts mean truth, and once we adhere to truth, the law comes to our aid naturally.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“Besides, I had learnt nothing at all of Indian law. I had not the slightest idea of Hindu and Mahomedan Law. I had not even learnt how to draft a plaint, and felt completely at sea. I had heard of Sir Pherozeshah Mehta as one who roared like a lion in law courts. How, I wondered, could he have learnt the art in England?”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“had read the laws, but not learnt how to practise law.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“I saw that a man of truth must also be a man of care.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with Truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments; it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography.”
― Mohandas K. Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“For a bowl of water give a goodly meal:                 For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal:                 For a simple penny pay thou back with gold:                 If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold.                 Thus the words and actions of the wise regard;                 Every little service tenfold they reward.                 But the truly noble know all men as one,                 And return with gladness good for evil done.”
― M. K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“I could not swallow this. I told him that, if the sheep had speech, they would tell a different tale. I felt that the cruel custom ought to be stopped. I thought of the story of Buddha, but I also saw that the task was beyond my capacity. I hold today the same opinion as I held then. To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man. But he who has not qualified himself for such service is unable to afford to it any protection. I must go through more self-purification and sacrifice, before I can hope to save these lambs from this unholy sacrifice. Today I think I must die pining for this self-purification and sacrifice. It is my constant prayer that there may be born on earth some great spirit, man or woman, fired with divine pity, who will deliver us from this heinous sin, save the lives of the innocent creatures, and purify the temple. How is it that Bengal with all its knowledge, intelligence, sacrifice, and emotion tolerates this slaughter?”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.”
― Mohandas K. Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.”
― Mohandas K. Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“God can never be realised by one who is not pure of heart. Self-purification therefore must mean purification in all the walks of life.”
― Mohandas K. Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“I can think of only one remedy for this awful state of things—that educated men should make a point of travelling thirdclass and reforming the habits of the people, as also of never letting the railway authorities rest in peace, sending in complaints wherever necessary, never resorting to bribes or any unlawful means for obtaining their own comforts, and never putting up with infringements of rules on the part of anyone concerned. This, I am sure, would bring about considerable improvement.”
― Mohandas K. Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“I believed then, and I believe even now, that, no matter what amount of work one has, one should always find some time for exercise, just as one does for one’s meals.”
― Mohandas K. Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“love,”
― Mohandas K. Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“So long as there are different religions, every one of them may need some outward distinctive symbol. But when the symbol is made into a fetish and an instrument of proving the superiority of one’s religion over others’, it is fit only to be discarded.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“live simply so others can simply live”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

“Where is there a wretch So wicked and loathsome as I? I have forsaken my Maker, So faithless have I been.”
― Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth

“I shall think myself blessed only when I see Him in every one of my daily acts; Verily He is the thread which supports Muktanand's life.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“With my meagre knowledge of my own religion i do not want to belong to any religious body”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

“He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.”
― Mohandas Gandhi, An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“The British," he (Gandhi) said, "want us to put the struggle on the plane of machine-guns where they have the weapons and we do not. Our only assurance of beating them is putting the struggle on a plane where we have the weapons and they do not."
_______Cited by William L Shirer in 'Gandhi: A Memoir”
― M.K.Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“I have always held that it is only when one sees one's own mistakes with a convex lens, and does just the reverse in the case of others, that one is able to arrive at a just relative estimate of the two.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

“I have noticed this characteristic difference in the popular attitude - partiality for exciting work, dislike for quiet constructive effort.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

“I have not the slightest doubt that prayer is an unfailing means of cleansing the heart of passions. But it must he combined with the utmost humility.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

“for the essence of religion is morality.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story Of My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man’s supremacy over the lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography: Or The Story of My Experiments With Truth

“True friendship is an identity of souls rarely to be found in this world. Only between like natures can friendship be altogether worthy and enduring. Friends react on one another.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography: Or The Story of My Experiments With Truth

“વિનય એટલે માનપૂર્વક વચનઉચ્ચારણ એટલો જ અર્થ અહીં નથી. વિનય એટલે વિરોધી પ્રત્યે પણ મનમાં આદર, સરળ ભાવ, તેના હિતની ઇચ્છા ને તે પ્રમાણે વર્તન.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Satyana Prayogo Athva Atmakatha

“True friendship is an identity of souls rarely to be found in this world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth