Mahatma Gandhi

Independence Leader, Activist Indian 1869 – 1948

Led India's independence movement through nonviolent civil disobedience.

380 quotes

"Independence must come through swadeshi and not through machinery."
"Poverty is the worst form of violence."
Justice
"The golden way is to be friends with all."
Friendship
"A drop of patience is worth more than an ocean of passion."
Patience
"In a gentle way you can shake the world; you need not always shout to be heard."
Inspiration
"Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our own unwise thoughts."
Wisdom
"The laws of a nation are the expression of the God in us."
"What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart."
Hope
"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it."
Truth
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."
Freedom
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."
Courage
"The good man is the friend of all living things."
Kindness
"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."
"If we are to reach real peace in this world, we shall have to begin with children."
Peace
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."
Peace
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Strength
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to have doubts."
Wisdom
"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."
Faith
"In a day, when you don't come across any problems, you can be sure that you are traveling the wrong path."
Success
"The future depends on what you do today."
Time
"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness."
Faith
"I am not a visionary. I claim to be a practical idealist."
Philosophy
"Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances."
Peace
"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Work
"Non-violence requires a very high quality of mind."
Peace
"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."
Perseverance
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
Motivation
"Become the change you wish to see in the world."
Change
"The moment there is in any nation the slightest attempt at absolute conformity, that nation is dying."
Freedom