Explore Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

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.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.