Explore Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.

At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.

What is faith if it is not translated into action?

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.

Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.

If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.

When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

See the good in people and help them.