135 Gandhi Quotes to Remember the Father of the Nation

Mahatma Gandhi  (born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) was a strong advocate of the principles of Satya (Truth) and Ahimsa (Non-violence). Mahatma Gandhi is one of history’s most transformative and inspirational figures and played a monumental role in India’s freedom struggle. He was born on 2^nd October, 1869 in Porbandar, Gujarat. This day is celebrated every year as Gandhi Jayanti to commemorate the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was the leader of the freedom struggle of India and is rightly called Bapu or Father of the Nation by Indians all around. Honored universally for his nonviolent philosophy, Gandhi pioneered some of the peaceful acts; civil rights activists still use today like marches and controversial ones like hunger strikes. Here are some inspiring Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Gandhi Jayanti his 152nd birth anniversary to remember the Father of the Nation.

Gandhi Quotes

1. “The future depends on what you do today.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

2. “They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

3. “Hate the sin, love the sinner.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

4. “You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

5. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

6. “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

7. “Situations change, so do people. Hence, don’t ever take one’s wisdom or lack of knowledge for granted.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
8. “A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than  ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
9. “Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
10. “My life is my message.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

11. “Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
12. “Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
13. “Take care of this moment.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
14. “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
15. “Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
16. “Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
17. “If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
18. “Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
19. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
20. “Above all, do not forget your duty to love yourself.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational Gandhi Quotes

21. “It’s easy to stand with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
22. “To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
23. “Peace is its own reward.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
24. “It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
25. “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
26. “I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
27. “Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but to change ourselves.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
28. “There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
29. “Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
30. “There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Quotes by Gandhi

31. “I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
32. “The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
33. “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
34. “It does not require money to live neat, clean, and dignified.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
35. “The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
36. “Truth never damages a cause that is just.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
37. “A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
38. “Full effort is full victory.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
39. “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
40. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Famous Gandhi Quotes

41. “Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
42. “Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
43. “A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
44. “Man should forget his anger before he goes to sleep.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
45. “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, 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
46. “We need not wait to see what others do.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
47. “Love is the strongest force the world possesses.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
48. “It’s not too late at all. You just don’t yet know what you are capable of.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
49. “The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
50. “Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi Quotes for Gandhi Jayanti

51. “Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
52. “An ounce of practice is worth a thousand words.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
53. “Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
54. “Gentleness, self-sacrifice, and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
55. “To lose patience is to lose the battle.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
56. “There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
57. “It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
58. “Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
59. “Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
60. “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes & Slogans

61.  “In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
62. “Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
63. “Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
64.  “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
65. “Those who know how to think
66. .” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
67. “What barrier is there that love cannot break?” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
68. “When you are right, you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
69.  “Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
70. “Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
71. “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi Quotes

71. “If you want to change the world, start with yourself.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
72. “Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
73. “My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
74. “My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
75. “Speak only if it improves upon the silence.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
76. “The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
77. “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
78.  “To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
79. “The real love is to love those that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
80. “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

Short Gandhi Quotes

81. “God has no religion.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
82. “Truth is one, paths are many.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
83. “Find purpose. The means will follow.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
84. “Self-respect knows no considerations.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
85. “Nothing is impossible for pure love.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
86. “True beauty consists of purity of heart.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
87. “Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
88. “Imitation is the sincerest flattery.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
89. “Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
90. “There is no ‘way to peace’, there is only ‘peace’.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Best Gandhi Quotes

91. “Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
92. “Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
93. “Your action expresses your priorities.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
94. “That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
95. “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
96. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
97. “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
98. “For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments are equally imperfect.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
99. “Even if the paradise of material satisfaction, which they envisage as their final goal, were realized on earth, it would not bring mankind either contentment or peace.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
100. “You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Inspiring Gandhi Quotes

101.  “When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
102. “Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
103. “Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
104. “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
105. “I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
106. “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
107. “A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
108. “To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
109. “Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
110. “Common sense is the realized sense of proportion.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

111. “When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
112. “Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
113. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
114. “If we want to reach real peace in this world, we should start educating children.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
115. “The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
116. “Live simply so that others may simply live.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
117. “Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
118. “The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
119. “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
120. “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

Gandhi Quotes

121. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
122. “Change yourself – you are in control.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
123. “Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
124. “The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
125. “A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
126. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
127. “Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
128. “Life is but an endless series of experiments.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
129. “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
130. “Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Deep Mahatma Gandhi Sayings

131. “Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
132. “No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
133. “It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your actions. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
134. “Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
135. “Where there is love there is life.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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