158 quotes
"It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?"
- Mahatma Gandhi
Love
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Compassion
"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Compassion
"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Learning
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Strength
"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Empowerment
"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Leadership
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness
"Where there is love, there is life."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Love
"Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow men."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Leadership
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Change
"Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Determination
"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Adaptation
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Learning
"The future depends on what you do today."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Future
"Where there is love there is life."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Love
"It's easy to stand with the crowd; it takes courage to stand alone."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Courage
"The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Service
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Motivation
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Change
""Be the change you want to see in the world.""
- Mahatma Gandhi
Change
""A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.""
- Mahatma Gandhi
Inspiration
"There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Relationships
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Change
"Learn as if you will live forever. Live like you will die tomorrow."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Learning
"Be the change you wish to see in the world"
- Mahatma Gandhi
Change
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world"
- Mahatma Gandhi
Change
"May your love be unconditional, for it has the power to transform lives."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Love
"In the midst of darkness, light persists."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Resilience
"A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Service
"A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Service
"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."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness
"Generosity consists not of the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Generosity
"When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Inspiration
"My life is my message."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Inspiration
"Adversity is the mother of progress."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Overcoming Obstacles
"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Hard Work
"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."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Compassion
"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Positivity
"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Connection to Earth
"Full effort is full victory."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Persistence
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Hope
"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
Contribution
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Resilience
"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Integrity
"You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Self-awareness
"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Spirituality
"Be the change you want to see in the world"
- Mahatma Gandhi
Change
"The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Love
"Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Persistence
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Compassion
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
- Mahatma Gandhi
Compassion
"The way of peace is the way of love."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Peace
"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Peace
"To lose patience is to lose the battle."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Courage
"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Self-awareness
"It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without heart."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Spirituality
"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Spirituality
"Prayer is not an old woman's amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Spirituality
"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."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Spirituality
"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Balance
"Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Inner Peace
"True education is about getting the best out of oneself."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Education
"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."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Compassion
"“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
Empowerment
"“The future depends on what you do today.”"
- Mahatma Gandhi
Future
"“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”"
- Mahatma Gandhi
Resilience
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness
"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Self-esteem
"You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Motivation
"Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Learning
"If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Faith
"It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Courage
"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Compassion
"Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Mindfulness
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err and even to sin."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Belief
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Growth
"Gently, you can shake the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Change
"I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Personal Growth
"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."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Wisdom
"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."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Wisdom
"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Relationships
"Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Determination
"Infinite striving to be the best is Man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Motivation
"An ounce of patience is worth more than tons of preaching."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Motivation
"By education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in the child and man; body, mind and spirit."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Education
"Today is a new day, and regrets will not help you at all. There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Mindfulness
"If you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Ambition
""Be the change that you wish to see in the world.""
- Mahatma Gandhi
Change
"Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Courage
"I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Mindfulness
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Morality
"There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Awareness
"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Respect
"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Personal Growth
"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world… as in being able to remake ourselves."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Personal Growth
"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Health
"Hate the sin, love the sinner."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Compassion
"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today, it means getting along with people."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Leadership
"Cleanliness is not next to godliness, it is godliness"
- Mahatma Gandhi
Spirituality
"All other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Joy
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in service of others."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Self-improvement
""Where there is love there is life."—Mahatma Gandhi"
- Mahatma Gandhi
Love
"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Spirituality
""Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.""
- Mahatma Gandhi
Learning
"Action expresses priorities."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Determination
"We must become the change we wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Change
"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Hard Work
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Faith
"Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Belief
"Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Belief
"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Belief
"To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face one must be able to love the meanest of creation as oneself."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Spirituality
"Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Morality
"Be the Change You Want to See"
- Mahatma Gandhi
Change
"Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Contribution
"“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.”"
- Mahatma Gandhi
Positivity
"“When someone is going through a storm, your silent presence is more powerful than a million empty words.”"
- Mahatma Gandhi
Compassion
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Motivation
"Live as if you would die tomorrow; learn as if you will live forever."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Learning
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Strength
"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves"
- Mahatma Gandhi
Connection to Earth
"I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Bravery
"It is health that is the real wealth, and not pieces of gold and silver."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Health
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Perseverance
"The difference between what we are doing and what we are capable of doing would solve most of the world’s problems."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Responsibility
"A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Philosophy
"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Philosophy
"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Mindfulness
"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."
- Mahatma Gandhi
New Beginnings
"No one can hurt me without my permission."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Self-confidence
"But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Faith
"The future depends on what you do today. Make your Saturday the day you conquer your goals."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Goals
""Where there is love there is life.""
- Mahatma Gandhi
Love
"We need not wait to see what others do."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Taking Risks
"To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Self-awareness
"An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Peace
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in service to others."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Service
""Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.""
- Mahatma Gandhi
Positivity
""The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.""
- Mahatma Gandhi
Service
"Be the Change You Wish to See in the World"
- Mahatma Gandhi
Change
"You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Self-awareness
""Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.""
- Mahatma Gandhi
Strength
"अगर आप कुछ नहीं करोगे तो आपके पास कोई परिणाम नहीं होगा।"
- Mahatma Gandhi
Taking Risks
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
- Mahatma Gandhi
Peace
"It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Morality
""If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.""
- Mahatma Gandhi
Peace
"Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Growth
"You must be the Change you wish to see in the World."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Change
"“My life is my message.”"
- Mahatma Gandhi
Integrity
"I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Education
"A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Education
"There are no goodbyes, wherever you are, you will always be in my heart."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Love
""Where there is love, there is life.""
- Mahatma Gandhi
Love
"God has no religion."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Spirituality
"In service, we find ourselves."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Service
""Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.""
- Mahatma Gandhi
Contentment
"Be the change you are trying to create."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Change